"We often choose a friend as we do……" — William Hazlitt
"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love."
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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 one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female…
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
— Richard Bach
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
— Francis Bacon
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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between…
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just…
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to…
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