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Letter "W" » William Hazlitt Quotes
«Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be»
«The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beau»
«He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The fields his study, nature was his book.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«No one is idle, who can do any thing.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The cannibals burn their enemies and eat them in good-fellowship with one another: meek Christian divines cast those who differ from them but a hair?s-breadth, body and soul into hell-fire for the glory of God and the good of his creatures! It is well that the power of such persons is not co-ordinate with their wills . . .»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The youth is better than the old age of friendship.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Actors are the only honest hypocrites.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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