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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
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
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
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
William Hazlitt
Great
Learning
Reward
Own
Exceeding
Great Reward
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
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
Happiness
Life
Love
Friendship
Trust
Marriage
Others
Our
Security
How
Affairs
Hands
Common
Little
Even
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
William Hazlitt
Aid
Way
Find
Able
Without
Custom
Room
Prejudice
Should
Across
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt
Love
Friendship
Myself
Fool
Hate
World
Enough
Despise
Despised
Indeed
Hated
Having
Chiefly
Dupe
Reason
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
William Hazlitt
Religion
Crime
Heroism
Virtue
Altar
Well
Infamy
Vice
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt
Soul
Grace
Harmony
Defined
Has-Been
Outward
Inward
Been
Expression
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
William Hazlitt
Nature
Respect
Heart
Language
Else
Poetry
He
Contempt
Himself
Itself
Anything
Anything Else
Cannot
Holds
Which
Much
Who
Universal
Universal Language
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
William Hazlitt
Unknown
Approaches
Stealth
Except
No-One
Perfection
Themselves
Ever
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt
Man
Own
Every
Rules
Morality
Exception
Opinion
His
Ordinary
Forms
Every Man
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
William Hazlitt
Think
About
Never
Well
Till
Doing
Cease
Anything
Manner
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
William Hazlitt
Better
Nothing
Else
Neither
Able
Write
Read
Nor
Than
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt
Doubt
Give
Anything
Breed
Reason
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William Hazlitt
You
Respect
Heart
Pride
Tyranny
Drive
Human Heart
Every
Secret
Individual
Make
Him
Revolts
May
Human
Order
Cannot
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