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William Hazlitt Quotes
«Honesty is one part eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«One is never tired of painting, because you have to set down, not what you knew already, but what you have just discovered. There is a continual creation out of nothing going on.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Sincerity has to do with the connect between our words and thoughts, and not between our belief and actions.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than . . . an obstinate, constitutional preference of the truth to the agreeable.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the discernment of the public.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences; to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others. It is because I want a little breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters. . . .»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Life is the art of being well deceived.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)