Author Topic: ~ William Hazlitt Quotes ~ (Read 4658 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:22:00 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:22:22 AM »

We do not see nature with our eyes but with our understandings and our hearts.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:22:50 AM »

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:23:11 AM »

The more we do the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:23:32 AM »

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:23:55 AM »

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:24:18 AM »

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:24:45 AM »

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better and a fool worse.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:25:06 AM »

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:25:36 AM »

There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there be they will not let you have it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:25:59 AM »

Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:26:23 AM »

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:26:45 AM »

None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:27:09 AM »

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** December 09, 2015, 09:27:32 AM »

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion and does not seek to make converts to it.

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