William Hazlitt Quotes

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
Those who can command themselves command others.
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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.
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
We must be doing something to be happy.
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10 April, 1778
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18 September, 1830
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