Quotes by William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

English writer

Lived from: 1778 - 1830

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 10 april 1778 Died: 18 september 1830

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  • The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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  • The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
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  • The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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  • The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
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  • The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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  • The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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  • The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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  • The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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  • The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
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  • The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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  • The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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  • The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
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  • The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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  • The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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  • The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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  • The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
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  • The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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  • The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
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  • The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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  • The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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