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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
By William Hazlitt
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
By William Hazlitt
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
By 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.
By 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.
By William Hazlitt
We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
By William Hazlitt
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
By William Hazlitt
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
By William Hazlitt
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves, and have neither thoughts nor feelings to impart to them. Give a man a topic in his head, a throb of pleasure in his heart, and he will be glad to share it with the first person he meets.
By William Hazlitt
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
By William Hazlitt
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
By William Hazlitt
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
By William Hazlitt
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
By William Hazlitt
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
By William Hazlitt
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
By William Hazlitt
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
By William Hazlitt
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.
By William Hazlitt
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
By William Hazlitt