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Quote by William Hazlitt

“Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.”

Book:Men and manners: sketches and essays

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This work delves into various aspects of male behavior and societal norms, offering insights into the complexities of human interaction and social conduct. more

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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt, born on April 10, 1778, was an influential English essayist and literary critic. His works are renowned for their sharp observations and profound insights, which have had a lasting impact on 19th-century British literature. more

“There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.”

Ifs Feels Years Wells Has Beens Age Lost Cutting Youth Periods Quiet Painful Nervous Sensitive Mature Repose Nervous System Tolerable Steadiness

Author:William Hazlitt

“Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.”

Kind Anger Spleen

Book:The Miscellaneous Works

Source: The Miscellaneous Works

“The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.”

Spirit Fire Anger Hardest Disposition

Author:William Hazlitt

“Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.”

Mind May Littles Doe Art Said Universe Principles Practice Objects Mass Draws Art Is Sight Wit Confused Veils Microscopes

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.”

Ifs Writing Faults Ridiculous Authorship Pedants

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.”

Dream Poet Fame Avarice Misers

Book:Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholors. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy

Source: Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholors. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy

“Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.”

Antidote Awkwardness Diffidence

Author:William Hazlitt

“Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.”

Wells Said Wish Forget Destiny Objects Birth Painful Ties Recalls Our Destiny Absent Birthplace Birth Place Painful Thoughts

Book:Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

“Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.”

Real Feelings Wish Setting Settings Hypocrisy Sentiments Cant Pretension Overcharging

Book:Sketches and Essays

Source: Sketches and Essays

“We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.”