All William Hazlitt Quotes
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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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.
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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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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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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.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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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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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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