"We are governed by sympathy; and the extent……" — William Hazlitt
"We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility"
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will…
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence…
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what…
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