Quotes about William Hazlitt

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

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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

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

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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

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

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

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

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

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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day,...

#William Hazlitt