William Hazlitt Quotes
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We must be doing something to be happy. - Action is no less necessary to us than thought.
[Action]
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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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.
[Friendship]
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness, which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.
[Weakness]
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When a man is dead, they put money in his coffin, erect monuments to his memory, and celebrate the anniversary of his birthday in set speeches. Would they take any notice of him if he were living? No!
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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When I take up a book I have read before I know what to expect; and the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated, I shake hands with and look the old tried and valued friend in the face, compare notes, and chat the hour away.
[Reading]
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
[Conversation]
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
[One Day]
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Women have more good sense than men. They have fewer pretensions, are less implicated in theories, and judge of objects more from their immediate and involuntary impressions on the mind, and therefore more truly and naturally.
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You know more of a road by having travelled it then by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
[Zeal]
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