William Hazlitt Quotes and Sayings
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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A wise traveler never despises his own country. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Anyone who has passed though 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. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Dandyism is a variety of genius. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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No young man ever thinks he shall die. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Reflection makes men cowards. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Rules and models destroy genius and art. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The busier we are the more leisure we have. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The more we do, the more we can do. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The public have neither shame or gratitude. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. 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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Those who can command themselves command others. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We must be doing something to be happy. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Zeal will do more than knowledge. William Hazlitt | Refcard PDF ↑