All William Hazlitt Quotes
I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
William Hazlitt
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
William Hazlitt
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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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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