William Hazlitt Quotes
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Elegance is something more than ease-more than a freedom from awkwardness and restraint. - It implies a precision, a polish, and a sparkling which is spirited, yet delicate.
[Elegance]
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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.
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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!
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
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Faith is necessary to victory.
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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, who drink of that flood of glory as of a river, and refresh our wings in it for future flight.
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it. - It is a sign the two things are not far asunder.
[Fashion]
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Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
[Birth]
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Few people make much noise after their deaths who did not do so while living.
[Fame]
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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.
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For my own part, as I once said, I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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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.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.
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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
[Beauty]
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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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