Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
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“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
Source: Sketches and Essays
“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The more we do, the more we can do.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life
Source: The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners
“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
Source: Lectures on the English Poets
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
“Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.”
“Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.”
Source: Sketches and Essays
Source: William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical
“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.”
Source: The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.”
Source: Miscellaneous writings
“Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.”
“Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.”
“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Reflection makes men cowards.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].