William Hazlitt Quotes

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

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  Topics in Smile, Work

  Tags in Miracles

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Travel

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Travel

• A wise traveler never despises his own country.

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  Tags in Travel

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Understandings, Eyes, Hearts

• Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Acting and the Theatre

• One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.

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  Topics in Age

  Tags in Women, Book

• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Acceptance, Man

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Forgiveness

• He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Hypocrisy

• Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretences to both.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Religion

• We must be doing something to be happy.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Absence, Govern, Grace

William Hazlitt (154)

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

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