All William Hazlitt Quotes
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
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