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William Hazlitt Quotes
«The soul of conversation is sympathy.»
Author: William Hazlitt
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«There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods.»
«Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.»
«Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.»
«The incentive to ambition is the love of power.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«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?»
«An indigestion is an excellent common-place for two people that never met before.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world. . . . He is power, passion, self-will personified.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)