William Hazlitt Quotes
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
[Art]
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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Sheridan once said of some speech, in his acute, sarcastic way, that "it contained a great deal both of what was new and what was true; but that what was new was not true, and what was true was not new."
[Speech]
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Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
[Simplicity]
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with; and there are few giants or dwarfs.
[Equality]
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry; it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
[Talent]
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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.
[Truth]
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. To be amiable is to be satisfied with one's self and others.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
[The Present]
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The busier we are the more leisure we have.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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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.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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