All William Hazlitt Quotes
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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