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William Hazlitt Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/William_Hazlitt_self-portrait_%281802%29.jpg/220px-William_Hazlitt_self-portrait_%281802%29.jpg)
An English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet his work is currently little-read and mostly out of print. During his lifetime he befriended many people who are now part of the 19th-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
Here are some famous quotes by William Hazlitt.
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Faith is necessary to victory.
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The soul of dispatch is decision.
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
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We must be doing something to be happy.
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As is our confidence so is our capacity.
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We had as lief not be as not be ourselves.
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True friendship is self-love at second hand.
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The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
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Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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Reason with most people means their own opinions.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
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If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.
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We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.
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Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
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We do not see nature with our eyes but with our understandings and our hearts.
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better and a fool worse.
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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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There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there be they will not let you have it.
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Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.
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None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion and does not seek to make converts to it.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.
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Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
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One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.
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It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
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The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
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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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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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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 ought to be.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
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We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
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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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All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
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We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit either in business or reputation improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
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Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said.