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William Hazlitt

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

-William Hazlitt

age

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.

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alone

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

-William Hazlitt

art

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

-William Hazlitt

art

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

-William Hazlitt

art

Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

-William Hazlitt

art

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

-William Hazlitt

art

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

beauty

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

-William Hazlitt

beauty

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

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best

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

-William Hazlitt

best

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

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best

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

courage

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.

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death

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.

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education

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

-William Hazlitt

faith

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

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fear

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

-William Hazlitt

food

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

friendship

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

friendship

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

friendship

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

friendship

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

friendship

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

-William Hazlitt

friendship

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

happiness

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

health

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

-William Hazlitt

history

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

-William Hazlitt

home

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

hope

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

-William Hazlitt

hope

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

imagination

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

knowledge

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

-William Hazlitt

knowledge

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

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

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.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

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.

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.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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!

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.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

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.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

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.

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.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

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.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

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