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Letter "W" » William Hazlitt Quotes
«The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.»
«No truly great man ever thought himself so.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.»
«The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.»
«Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.»
«Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive.»
«Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room»
«If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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«The more we do, the more we can do.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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