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William Hazlitt Quotes
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
~ William Hazlitt
Accomplish
Gentle
Good-Natured
Kind
Look
Miracles
Smile
Wonders
Word
Work
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
~ William Hazlitt
About
Advantage
Always
Another
Best
Blockhead
Go
Grave
Lively
Off
Should
Show
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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
~ William Hazlitt
Brush
Hair
Head
Two
Worth
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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
~ William Hazlitt
Could
Deceives
Despises
Dupe
He
Himself
Hypocrite
Make
No Respect
Respect
Those
Too
Whom
Would
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
~ William Hazlitt
Apprehension
Believe
Devil
Haunts
Heaviest
Imagination
Man
Nickname
Our
Still
Stone
Though
Throw
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
~ William Hazlitt
Book
Dead
Every
Language
Like
Read
Scholar
Written
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
~ William Hazlitt
Country
Despises
His
Never
Own
Traveler
Wise
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
~ William Hazlitt
Accommodate
Almost
Christianity
Essence
Every
Perversion
Prejudices
World
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
~ William Hazlitt
Give
Honest
Honest Man
Man
May
Offence
Order
Speaks
Though
Truth
Vain
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
~ William Hazlitt
Anyone
Classical
Consider
Education
Escape
Fool
Had
Having
Himself
Made
May
Narrow
Passed
Regular
Though
Very
Who
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
~ William Hazlitt
Capacity
Confidence
Our
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
~ William Hazlitt
Books
Lay
Let Us
Open
Our
Own
Secrets
Souls
Us
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
~ William Hazlitt
Art
Concealing
Cunning
Defects
Discovering
Other
Our
Own
People
Weaknesses
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Dandyism is a variety of genius.
~ William Hazlitt
Genius
Variety
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
~ William Hazlitt
Against
Country
Death
Fellows
Fight
His
Horse
Hundred
Knowing
Man
Ready
Says
Thousand
Time
Were
Whether
Without
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
~ William Hazlitt
After
Bury
Friends
Friendship
Gone
Keep
Mockery
Part
Substance
While
Worth
You
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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
~ William Hazlitt
Better
Dr
However
Johnson
Lazy
Learned
Learned Man
Liked
Man
Much
Often
Read
Rote
Talk
Than
Think
Too
Well
Who
Write
Wrote
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
~ William Hazlitt
Among
Angry
Deserved
Envy
Ingredients
Justice
Love
Mixture
More
Other
Than
Undeserved
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
~ William Hazlitt
Affairs
Common
Even
Friendship
Hands
Happiness
How
Life
Little
Love
Marriage
Others
Our
Security
Trust
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
~ William Hazlitt
Every
Every Man
Exception
Forms
His
Man
Morality
Opinion
Ordinary
Own
Rules
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William Hazlitt
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BirthDate
10 April, 1778
DeathDate
18 September, 1830
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United Kingdom
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