A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
- William Hazlitt Quote
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one they shew one another off to the best advantage.
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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
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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.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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Dandyism is a variety of genius.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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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.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
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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.
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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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.
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
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No truly great man ever thought himself so.
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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The busier we are the more leisure we have.
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- William Hazlitt Quote
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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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 Quote
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- William Hazlitt Quote
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
- William Hazlitt Quote
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 Quote
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
- William Hazlitt Quote
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
- William Hazlitt Quote
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
- William Hazlitt Quote
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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We must be doing something to be happy.
- William Hazlitt Quote
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
- William Hazlitt Quote
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
- William Hazlitt Quote
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
- William Hazlitt Quote
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
- William Hazlitt Quote
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
- William Hazlitt Quote
