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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room; nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Those who are fond of settling things to rights have no great objection to seeing them wrong (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others (William Hazlitt Quotes)
His sayings are generally like women’s letters; all the pith is in the postscript (William Hazlitt Quotes)
It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves (William Hazlitt Quotes)
There is, however, no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety (William Hazlitt Quotes)
I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country (William Hazlitt Quotes)
I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home (William Hazlitt Quotes)
The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel (William Hazlitt Quotes)
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed (William Hazlitt Quotes)
For my own part, as I once said, I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about (William Hazlitt Quotes)
So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Indeed some degree of affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body; we must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Again, there is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have also their altars and their religion (William Hazlitt Quotes)
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearnings after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy (William Hazlitt Quotes)
That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportionable eagerness and haste (William Hazlitt Quotes)
To create an unfavourable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said (William Hazlitt Quotes)
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, any more than they grow stronger or healthier or honester (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Some degree of affection is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body; we must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretences to both (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Let a man’s talents or virtues be what they may, we only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself (William Hazlitt Quotes)
We prefer ourselves to others, only because we have a more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person’s (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination (William Hazlitt Quotes)
He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on the mind by reading his poetry... A great mind is one that moulds the minds of others (William Hazlitt Quotes)