William Hazlitt Short Quotes

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We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.

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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

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The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.

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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it…

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The greatest offense against virtue is to speak ill of it.

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All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.

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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

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Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

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He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.

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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

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The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

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It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.

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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

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Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

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The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

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Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

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