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 69 thoughts of William Hazlitt
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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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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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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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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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
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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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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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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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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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