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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. - William Hazlitt Quotes

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

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Acting And Actors English Critic

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part - William Hazlitt Quotes

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part

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Acting And Actors

The incognito of an inn is one of its striking privileges. - William Hazlitt Quotes

The incognito of an inn is one of its striking privileges.

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The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation. - William Hazlitt Quotes

The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

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Heart

Those who cannot miss an opportunity of saying a good thing . . . are not to be trusted with the management of any great question. - William Hazlitt Quotes

Those who cannot miss an opportunity of saying a good thing . . . are not to be trusted with the management of any great question.

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Management Trust

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration - William Hazlitt Quotes

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration

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Zeal will do more than knowledge. - William Hazlitt Quotes

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

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English Critic Knowledge

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them, as the dial does of those that are clouded. - William Hazlitt Quotes

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them, as the dial does of those that are clouded.

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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. - William Hazlitt Quotes

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted - William Hazlitt Quotes

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted

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Art

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago - William Hazlitt Quotes

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago

William Hazlitt

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives. - William Hazlitt Quotes

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

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Caprice Imagination

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. - William Hazlitt Quotes

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations - William Hazlitt Quotes

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

William Hazlitt

Evils

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation - William Hazlitt Quotes

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out. - William Hazlitt Quotes

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

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Friends Or Friendship

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice - William Hazlitt Quotes

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice

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Mercy

There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical.

There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene."

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. - William Hazlitt Quotes

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

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Adversity English Critic

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory. - William Hazlitt Quotes

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

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English Critic Faith

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. - William Hazlitt Quotes

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

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Absence English Critic

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. - William Hazlitt Quotes

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

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Writers And Writing

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another - William Hazlitt Quotes

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another

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It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion . . . and become the creature of the moment . . . known by no other title than The Gentleman in the Parlour! - William Hazlitt Quotes

It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion . . . and become the creature of the moment . . . known by no other title than The Gentleman in the Parlour!

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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. - William Hazlitt Quotes

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

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Applause English Critic

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. - William Hazlitt Quotes

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

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If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable. - William Hazlitt Quotes

If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.

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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves. - William Hazlitt Quotes

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

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Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic - William Hazlitt Quotes

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic

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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice - William Hazlitt Quotes

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. - William Hazlitt Quotes

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born. - William Hazlitt Quotes

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born.

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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal. - William Hazlitt Quotes

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. - William Hazlitt Quotes

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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English Critic Force

No one is idle, who can do any thing. - William Hazlitt Quotes

No one is idle, who can do any thing.

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 Quotes

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.

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Advice English Critic

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. - William Hazlitt Quotes

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

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English Critic Heart

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. - William Hazlitt Quotes

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means - William Hazlitt Quotes

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means

William Hazlitt

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery. - William Hazlitt Quotes

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. - William Hazlitt Quotes

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it - William Hazlitt Quotes

Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it

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There is no force but argument in the case, and it is reason, not the will of another, that gives the law. - William Hazlitt Quotes

There is no force but argument in the case, and it is reason, not the will of another, that gives the law.

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Force

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them. - William Hazlitt Quotes

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

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The essence of poetry is will and passion. - William Hazlitt Quotes

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

William Hazlitt

Passion Poetry And Poets

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. - William Hazlitt Quotes

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

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English Critic Hypocrisy

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness. - William Hazlitt Quotes

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

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Death

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind - William Hazlitt Quotes

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind

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Capability Editor's Pick Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily. - William Hazlitt Quotes

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

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Appearance Cost

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief. - William Hazlitt Quotes

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

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