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Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant satisfaction to the thought. This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Comedy Poetry Tragedy Writing

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Writers Writing

the old maxim... there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Impudence Life Success

The path of genius is free, and its own

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Education Genius

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Books Reading Secrets Soul

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Afraid Enemies Fear Friendship

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Idiots World Wrong

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Fools Hallucination Honesty World

Words are the only things that last for ever.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Books Literature Reading Words

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

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Forgiveness Hypocrisy Hypocrite Repentance

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Corruption Enemies Friends Good Nature Injustice Lies

The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Advice Weakness

Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Hate Love Satire

Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Hate Hatred Porup Rapture Satire United States Of Air

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Ego Good Human Selfish Virtues

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Chess Essays Great Men Greatness

A man's life is his whole life, not the last glimmering snuff of the candle; and this, I say, is considerable, and not a little matter, whether we regard its pleasures or its pains. To draw a peevish conclusion to the contrary from our own superannuated desires or forgetful indifference is about as reasonable as to say, a man never was young because he has grown old, or never lived because he is now dead. The length or agreeableness of a journey does not depend on the few last steps of it, nor is the size of a building to be judged of from the last stone that is added to it. It is neither the first nor last hour of our existence, but the space that parts these two - not our exit nor our entrance upon the stage, but what we do, feel, and think while there - that we are to attend to in pronouncing sentence upon it.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Awareness Being Now Presence

He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' not by the help of mechanical instruments, but of the improved exercise of his faculties, and an intimate sympathy with Nature. The meanest thing is not lost upon him, for he looks at it with an eye to itself, not merely to his own vanity or interest, or the opinion of the world. Even where there is neither beauty nor use—if that ever were—still there is truth, and a sufficient source of gratification in the indulgence of curiosity and activity of mind. The humblest printer is a true scholar; and the best of scholars - the scholar of Nature.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Awareness Being Now Presence

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Attention Conversation Hearing Listening Respect

Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Air Eaters America Fanaticism Porup United States Of Air War On Terror

Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Love Sacrifice

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Productivity Repose

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

William Hazlitt Friendship Quotes Letting Go

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Danger Defeat Disgrace Exposure Hazlitt Self Worth William Hazlitt

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Laughter Life

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may only study his commentators. [On the Ignorance of the Learned]

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Shakespeare Shakespeare Criticism

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Arrogance Prudence Talking Vanity

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Acting Theatre

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Aging Old Age

We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Bores Boredom

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt England U K

Faith is necessary to victory.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Faith Unity

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

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Fame Celebrities

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Helping People

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

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Homo Sapiens

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Homo Sapiens

Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Insults Calumny

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.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Leaders Leadership

We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Pressure Diamonds

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt One Day
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