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William Hazlitt Quotes

«Honesty is one part eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Sincerity has to do with the connect between our words and thoughts, and not between our belief and actions.»
«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.»
«There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than . . . an obstinate, constitutional preference of the truth to the agreeable.»
«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.»
«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. . . .»
«Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.»
«Life is the art of being well deceived.»