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Quotes by William Hazlitt
“ Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. ”
“ When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. ”
“ Well, I've had a happy life. ”
“ If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power, for you necessarily feel some towards him; and since he will take no denial, you must comply with his peremptory demands, or send for a constable, which out of respect for his character you will not do. ”
“ The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. ”
“ We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. ”
“ You know more of a road by having travelled it then by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. ”
“ The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion. ”
“ Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ”
“ A scholar is like a book written in a dead language - it is not every one that can read in it. ”
“ Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man. ”
“ Man is a ''make-believe'' animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ”
“ Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ”
“ The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness, than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. ”
“ The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance. ”
“ Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for — they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood? ”
“ Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. ”
“ I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. ”
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