"When a thing ceases to be a subject……" — William Hazlitt
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."
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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 Ceases Quotes
This quote is filed under Ceases Quotes,
one of 412 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and…
— A. S. Byatt
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
— Les Claypool
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates…
— B R Ambedkar
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It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our…
— Corazon Aquino
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The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control…
— Unknown Author
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When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions…
— Francois Fenelon
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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