All 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
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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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.
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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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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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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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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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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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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