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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

English writer

Lived from: 1778 - 1830

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 10 april 1778 Died: 18 september 1830

  • A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
  • There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
  • There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
  • 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.
  • Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
  • The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
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  • Reflection makes men cowards.
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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 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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