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William Hazlitt Quotes
William Hazlitt Quotes
William Hazlitt
English
Critic
Born:
Apr 10
,
1778
Died:
Sep 18
,
1830
Great
Love
Man
Own
Think
Who
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt
Hypocrite
Hypocrisy
Repentance
Only
Itself
Forgiven
Vice
Cannot
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt
Positive
Health
Animal
Fire
Beauty
Big
Laugh
Eye
Spirits
Adorn
Color
Maintain
Cheek
Look
Talk
Up
Loud
Person
Your
Keep
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
William Hazlitt
Respect
Hypocrite
Too
Despises
Those
Would
No Respect
Could
He
Make
Himself
Dupe
Deceives
Whom
The more we do, the more we can do.
William Hazlitt
More
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
William Hazlitt
Hope
People
Own
Others
Apt
Neighbors
Insignificant
No Hope
Rising
Self
Most
Safe
Self-Esteem
Sneer
Esteem
Lowering
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt
Ignorance
Child
Prejudice
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt
Life
Art
Deceived
Must
Habitual
Well
May
Being
Order
Deception
Succeed
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
Art
People
Own
Other
Our
Weaknesses
Concealing
Discovering
Cunning
Defects
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
Learning
Genius
Wish
See
Insignificance
Shakespeare
Study
Know
Force
Read
His
May
Human
Should
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
Teacher
Adversity
Great
Prosperity
Great Teacher
Greater
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
William Hazlitt
Smart
Fall
Saw
Observe
Like
Asked
Newton
Who
Why
Apple
Millions
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
Faith
You
Win
Victory
Think
Necessary
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
William Hazlitt
Great
Thought
Great Person
Truly
Person
Themselves
Ever
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William Hazlitt
You
Travel
World
Having
More
Road
Know
Than
Conjecture
Descriptions
Traveled
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
William Hazlitt
Strong
Arises
Exemption
Fancied
Which
Prejudice
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt
Edge
Though
Admiration
Takes
Contempt
Off
Familiarity
May
Breed
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
William Hazlitt
Great
Learning
Reward
Own
Exceeding
Great Reward
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
Love
Angry
Justice
Envy
Other
More
Undeserved
Mixture
Than
Ingredients
Deserved
Among
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
William Hazlitt
Women
Grace
Beauty
More
Effect
Than
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
William Hazlitt
Life
Success
Judge
World
Men
Our
Ourselves
Ability
Test
Same
Depends
Which
Profession
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt
Destruction
Pain
Our
Finger
More
Gives
Smallest
Fellow
Concern
Than
Little
Us
Beings
Millions
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt
Love
Power
Ambition
Incentive
We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlitt
Be Happy
Happy
Must
Something
Doing
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
William Hazlitt
Life
Home
My Life
Spend
Would
Borrow
Could
Like
Another
Anywhere
If I Could
Whole
Traveling
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
Wisdom
Knowledge
Heart
Judge
Head
Wrong
Feel
Sure
Seat
Right
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
William Hazlitt
Truth
Truth Is
Better
Few
Think
Our
Please
Ourselves
Entertain
More
Piece
Friends
Than
Deceive
Few Things
Esteem
Which
Little
Them
Us
Profess
Displease
Things
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