"To think ill of mankind and not wish……" — William Hazlitt

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is… - William Hazlitt

"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."

— William Hazlitt

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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of… — P T Barnum
Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of… — Roseanne Barr
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government… — John Quincy Adams
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret… — Joseph Addison
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it… — Pope Benedict XVI
Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes. — Ezra Taft Benson

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