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William Hazlitt Quotes

«Those who have the largest hearts, have the soundest understandings; and he is the truest philosopher who can forget himself.»
«The majority, compose them how you will, are a herd, and not a very nice one.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: compose
«It is surely a distinct question, what you can persuade people to do by argument and fair discussion, and what you may lawfully compel them to do, when reason and remonstrance fail.»
«We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: trifle
«In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason . . . If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.»
«When I take up a work that I have read before (the oftener the better) I know what I have to expect. The satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated.»
«People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: soured
«There is no force but argument in the case, and it is reason, not the will of another, that gives the law.»
«What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.»
«He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.»