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We trifle with, make sport of,...

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A situation in a public office...

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

It may be made a question whet...

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Wonder at the first sight of w...

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Of all virtues, magnanimity is...

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Anyone is to be pitied who has...

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

I am proud up to the point of ...

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Fashion is the abortive issue ...

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

What is popular is not necessa...

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Our repugnance to death increa...

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The most rational cure after a...

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A life of action and danger mo...

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

That which anyone has been lon...

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Learning is its own exceeding ...

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

One is always more vexed at lo...

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

There is no flattery so adroit...

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Natural affection is a prejudi...

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

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The wretched are in this respe...

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The assumption of merit is eas...

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The definition of genius is th...

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

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