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70 quotes (Page 2 of 3 pages)No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
Modesty
William Hazlitt
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
Opinions
William Hazlitt
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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
Excellence
William Hazlitt
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
Favors
William Hazlitt
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
Death and Dying
William Hazlitt
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Prejudice
William Hazlitt
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Reflection makes men cowards.
Deliberation
William Hazlitt
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Sarcasm
William Hazlitt
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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Promises
William Hazlitt
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
Taste
William Hazlitt
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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
Inheritance
William Hazlitt
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
Persuasion
William Hazlitt
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
Expectation
William Hazlitt
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The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
Insults
William Hazlitt
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The busier we are the more leisure we have.
Leisure
William Hazlitt
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
Poetry and Poets
William Hazlitt
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
Mind
William Hazlitt
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Action
William Hazlitt
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
Prejudice
William Hazlitt
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
self-esteem
William Hazlitt
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
Friends and Friendship
William Hazlitt
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
Vocation
William Hazlitt
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
Gratitude
William Hazlitt
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The worst old age is that of the mind.
Age and Aging
William Hazlitt
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
Fame
William Hazlitt
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun