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William Hazlitt Quotes About Love

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

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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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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

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William Hazlitt Quotes About Friendship

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

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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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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

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More Quotes by William Hazlitt

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

William Hazlitt

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

William Hazlitt

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

William Hazlitt

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

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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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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

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

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

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

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

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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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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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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

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

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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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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

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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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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

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

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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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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

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

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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

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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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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

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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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