William Hazlitt Quotes

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

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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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• I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

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

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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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• Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

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• No young man ever thinks he shall die.

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

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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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• Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

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• The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

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• Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

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

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

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• To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

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

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• We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

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

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

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William Hazlitt (154)

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

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