Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Quote by William Hazlitt

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

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

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice

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

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

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have...

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have...

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

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

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

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

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

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying...

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying...

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a...

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a...

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue...

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue...

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we...

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we...

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with...

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with...

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than...

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than...