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Quotes by William Hazlitt
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"Rules and models destroy genius and art."
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"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."
William Hazlitt"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
William Hazlitt"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies."
William Hazlitt"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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
William Hazlitt"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"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"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"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"Zeal will do more than knowledge."
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 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"Learning is its own exceeding great reward."
William Hazlitt"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
William Hazlitt"The more we do, the more we can do."
William Hazlitt"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves."
William Hazlitt"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could."
William Hazlitt"A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles."
William Hazlitt"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
William Hazlitt"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."
William Hazlitt"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."
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"Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life."
William Hazlitt"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."
William Hazlitt"A wise traveler never despises his own country."
William Hazlitt"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."
William Hazlitt