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William Hazlitt Quotes

William Hazlitt quotes about friends

English Critic, Writer April 10, 1778 – September 18, 1830

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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. William Hazlitt
Thus, to give an obvious instance, if I have once enjoyed the cool shade of a tree, and been lulled into a deep repose by the sound of a brook running at its feet, I am sure that wherever I can find a tree and a brook, I can enjoy the same pleasure again. Hence, when I imagine these objects, I can easily form a mystic personification of the friendly power that inhabits them, Dryad or Naiad, offering its cool fountain or its tempting shade. Hence the origin of the Grecian mythology. William Hazlitt
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them. William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt quote: "He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies."
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt quote: "Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us,..."
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. William Hazlitt
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt quote: "I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk..."
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. William Hazlitt

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