All William Hazlitt Quotes
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt
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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
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