William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

"If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power."
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"If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power."
William Hazlitt
"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."
William Hazlitt
"Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought."
William Hazlitt
"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves."
William Hazlitt
"Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others."
William Hazlitt
"Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself."
William Hazlitt
"Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself."
William Hazlitt
"Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know."
William Hazlitt
"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
"We had as lief not be as not be ourselves."
William Hazlitt
"It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed."
William Hazlitt
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been."
William Hazlitt
"The public have neither shame nor gratitude."
William Hazlitt
"The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion and does not seek to make converts to it."
William Hazlitt
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
William Hazlitt
"As is our confidence so is our capacity."
William Hazlitt
"Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy."
William Hazlitt
"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."
William Hazlitt
"Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong."
William Hazlitt
"Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room."
William Hazlitt
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