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“Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.”

Quote by William Hazlitt

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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

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“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.”

Giving Sometimes Opportunity Virtue Faults Reconcile Rail

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.”

People Ifs Use Attention Return Tired Treated Neglect Ceremony Trifling Coldness

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.”

Mind Ideas Shows Numbers Cities Objects Perpetual Large Cities

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.”

Giving Self Opinion Enemy Judging Extremes Offense Complacency Conceit Defiance

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.”

Spirit Confidence Self Confidence Yield Distrust Captivating

Author:William Hazlitt

“Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.”

Conversation Repose

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.”

Knows May Persons Art Silence Quality Opinion Fool Conversation Gains Credit Tongue Wit Silence Is Great Art Eloquence Art Of Conversation

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.”

Happens Cowardice Prudence Discretion Valor

Book:The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics

Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics