William Hazlitt quotes

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt

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

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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Those who can command themselves, command others.
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask;
the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than
indifferent to them.
William Hazlitt

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

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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Any one who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not
made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope;
and few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt

You know more of a road by having travelled it then by all the conjectures and descriptions in
the world.
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It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
William Hazlitt

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an
end. There was a time when we were not: This gives us no concern. Why, then, should it
trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself
hypocrisy.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme
devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in
yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
William Hazlitt

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at
undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
William Hazlitt