William Hazlitt Quotes
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
[Acts]
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end, or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. - It is partly practice and partly habit. - It requires an effort in them to speak the truth.
[Lying]
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
[Eloquence]
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that.
[Hope]
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
[Time]
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I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be sure he is not a knave.
[Fools]
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I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
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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.
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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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.
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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If we use no ceremory toward others, we shall be treated without any. - People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
[Ceremony]
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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.
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