William Hazlitt Quotes

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William Hazlitt

Profession : Critic

Birth : April 10, 1778

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

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

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

William Hazlitt

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

William Hazlitt

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

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A wise traveler never despises his own country.

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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

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I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

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