William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

"Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal."
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"Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal."
William Hazlitt
"Reflection makes men cowards."
William Hazlitt
"Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life."
William Hazlitt
"Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else."
William Hazlitt
"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."
William Hazlitt
"The more we do, the more we can do."
William Hazlitt
"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
William Hazlitt
"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
"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
"Rules and models destroy genius and art."
William Hazlitt
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."
William Hazlitt
"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
"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."
William Hazlitt
"A wise traveler never despises his own country."
William Hazlitt
"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."
William Hazlitt
"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
"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
"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."
William Hazlitt
"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
"If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you."
William Hazlitt
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