William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt (1778-04-10 – 1830-09-18) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. He is sometimes esteemed the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson.
Found 68 thoughts of William Hazlitt
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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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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If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
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I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.
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Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.
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That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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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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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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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.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
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