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William Hazlitt Quotes

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject Picture Quote #1

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one Picture Quote #1

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap Picture Quote #1

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment Picture Quote #1

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate Picture Quote #1

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues Picture Quote #1

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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor Picture Quote #1

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect Picture Quote #1

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness Picture Quote #1

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary Picture Quote #1

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it Picture Quote #1

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for Picture Quote #1

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One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living Picture Quote #1

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel Picture Quote #1

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly Picture Quote #1

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object Picture Quote #1

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it Picture Quote #1

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To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject (William Hazlitt Quotes) It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one (William Hazlitt Quotes) Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap (William Hazlitt Quotes) Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment (William Hazlitt Quotes) Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate (William Hazlitt Quotes) We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues (William Hazlitt Quotes) Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor (William Hazlitt Quotes) If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect (William Hazlitt Quotes) The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness (William Hazlitt Quotes) Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary (William Hazlitt Quotes) There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it (William Hazlitt Quotes) Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for (William Hazlitt Quotes) One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living (William Hazlitt Quotes) There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel (William Hazlitt Quotes) Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly (William Hazlitt Quotes) Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object (William Hazlitt Quotes) Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it (William Hazlitt Quotes)

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