All William Hazlitt Quotes
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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Nature
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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Peace
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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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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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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