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William Hazlitt Inspirational Quotes (575)

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We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
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Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.
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He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
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To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
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We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
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People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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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.
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
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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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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
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Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
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Life is the art of being well deceived.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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