William Hazlitt Quotes

• 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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• 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

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  Tags in Heart, Judge

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

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• The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of – the last he does not concern himself about.

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

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Liberty, Journey

• 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.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Envy, Ingredients, Jealousy

• The busier we are the more leisure we have.

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• Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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• To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

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  Tags in Leaders, Follow, Thinking

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

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Defects, Cunning, Deception, Weakness

• Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in People, Pleasure, Breaking

• 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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  Tags in Goodness, Heart, Strength

• Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

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  Tags in Preserver, Features, Temper

• A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Worth, Appearance, Brush

• 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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• Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

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  Tags in Distasteful, Meats, Stomach

• We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

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  Tags in Hypocrisy, Sleep

• The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Cravings, Heaven, Satisfy, Perfect

• Zeal will do more than knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Zeal, Will

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

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Hypocrisy, Forgiveness

William Hazlitt (154)

Birth:	10th April, 1778
Death:	18th September, 1830
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Painter, Philosopher, Writer

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