“To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem … ridiculous.”
William Hazlitt
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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.”
William Hazlitt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy
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“No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.”
William Hazlitt
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“The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.”
William Hazlitt
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“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
William Hazlitt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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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.”
William Hazlitt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education
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“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”
William Hazlitt
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“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”
William Hazlitt
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“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
William Hazlitt
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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.”
William Hazlitt
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“There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or goodnature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralises all these–they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.”
William Hazlitt
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“Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.”
William Hazlitt
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“Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.”
William Hazlitt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.”
William Hazlitt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.”
William Hazlitt
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“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”
William Hazlitt
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“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”
William Hazlitt
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“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
William Hazlitt
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“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”
William Hazlitt
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“The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.”
William Hazlitt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
