"Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the……" — William Hazlitt
"Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart."
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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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Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or…
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I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither…
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Patch’s eyes were black orbs. Taking in everything and giving away nothing.
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I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my…
— Jack Kerouac
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She's upset Bad day Heads for the dresser drawer to Drive her pain away Nothing good can come of this.…
— Broken Soul
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With a thousand lies and a good disguise, hit 'em right between the eyes, hit 'em right between the eyes.…
— The Offspring
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When you walk away, nothing more to say, see the lightning in your eyes; see em running for their lives.
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You think you've found your freedom, but it always slips away. Nothing ever satisfies, you always have to pay.
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