"We never do anything well till we cease……" — William Hazlitt
"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing 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 Anything Well Quotes
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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
— Fred Allen
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Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I…
— LeBron James
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
— Nawal El Saadawi
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First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it.…
— B. C. Forbes
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How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before…
— Ted Kluszewski
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Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability…
— Charles Bukowski
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A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.
— John Szarkowski
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There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.
— Alexander Dale Oen
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything,…
— Robert Henri
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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition…
— Michael Moriarty
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Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say…
— Ronald Reagan
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