"There is a feeling of Eternity in youth……" — William Hazlitt
"There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals."
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William Hazlitt
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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work,…
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Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to…
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Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the…
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The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any…
— Joel Beeke
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It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can…
— Gary Yourofsky
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
— Boethius
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Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door…
— Desmond Tutu
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Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some…
— Jack Kornfield
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It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to…
— Jonathan Goforth
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If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to…
— Matt Dillahunty
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As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your…
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