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William Hazlitt Quotes
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it (William Hazlitt Quotes)
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity (William Hazlitt Quotes)
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago (William Hazlitt Quotes)
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it (William Hazlitt Quotes)
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor (William Hazlitt Quotes)
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings (William Hazlitt Quotes)
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases (William Hazlitt Quotes)
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours (William Hazlitt Quotes)
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man (William Hazlitt Quotes)
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice (William Hazlitt Quotes)
There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith’s bellows: they take breath but are not alive (William Hazlitt Quotes)
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead (William Hazlitt Quotes)
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects (William Hazlitt Quotes)
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it (William Hazlitt Quotes)
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded (William Hazlitt Quotes)
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began (William Hazlitt Quotes)
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men (William Hazlitt Quotes)
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge (William Hazlitt Quotes)
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture (William Hazlitt Quotes)
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be (William Hazlitt Quotes)