All William Hazlitt Quotes
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!
William Hazlitt
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
William Hazlitt
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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.
William Hazlitt
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William Hazlitt
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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
William Hazlitt
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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
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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
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