William Carew Hazlitt Quotes

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A Physitian demanded money of another for one of his patients that was dead long before. He was answered that it was a worke of chairty to visit the sick; but if he was so earnest for money, the only way was for him to visit the dead, and then he would never want money more.

William Carew Hazlitt
The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

William Carew Hazlitt
Genius is a native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic.

William Carew Hazlitt
One asked a man whether he had swallowed a Doctor of Phisickes bill, because hee spoke such hard words.

William Carew Hazlitt
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all are derived from inanimate things - books, pictures, and the face of nature.

William Carew Hazlitt
In what we really understand, we reason but little.

William Carew Hazlitt
Nature is stronger than reason: for nature is, after all, the text, reason but the comment.

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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

William Carew Hazlitt
One said Physitians had the best of it; for, if they did well, the world did proclaime it; if ill, the earth did cover it.

William Carew Hazlitt
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

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An ignorant drunken Surgeon that kil'd all men that came under his hands, boasted himself a better man than the Parson; for, said he, your Cure maintains but yourself, but my Cures maintaine all the Sextons in the Towne.

William Carew Hazlitt
One said an Apothecaryes house must needs be healthful, because the windows, benches, boxes, and almost all the things in the house, tooke physick.

William Carew Hazlitt
One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.

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One said a Physitian was naturall brother to the wormes, because he was ingendered out of man's corruption.

William Carew Hazlitt