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William Hazlitt Quotes

William Hazlitt quotes

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

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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
William Hazlitt quote: "The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of..."
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. William Hazlitt
Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind and pregnancy of imagination... William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt quote: "Grace in women has more effect than beauty."
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt quote: "The best kind of conversation is that which may be called..."
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud. William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt quote: "It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise..."
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt quote: "Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but..."
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. William Hazlitt
Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction--they see their objects always near, never in the horizon. William Hazlitt
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt quote: "A wise traveler never despises his own country."
A wise traveler never despises his own country. William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt quote: "We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our..."
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt quote: "Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an..."
Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. William Hazlitt

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