"To give a reason for anything is to…" — William Hazlitt
"To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it."
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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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More Breed Quotes
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one of 349 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
— Francis Bacon
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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
— Dave Barry
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I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
— Emily Bronte
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There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting…
— Bill Bryson
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What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and…
— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
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Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the…
— Paul McCabe
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One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most…
— Thomas Sowell
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I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by…
— George Washington
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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.
— Chesty Puller
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Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow…
— George S. Patton
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