Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. 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 More Quotes by William Hazlitt More Quotes From William Hazlitt The incentive to ambition is the love of power. William Hazlitt incentivesambition The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. William Hazlitt perfectjoyheaven Hope is the best possession. William Hazlitt hopefulpossessionanticipation The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. William Hazlitt favorsregretdoors The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. William Hazlitt insolencetreatsignorance I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object. William Hazlitt doneminddoe Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people. William Hazlitt governmentlawpeople It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information. William Hazlitt mindexercisephilosophy Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic. William Hazlitt exoticgeniusair One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone. William Hazlitt journeydoorsworld 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 lovelifehands Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them. William Hazlitt starshurtdream What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it. William Hazlitt selfmeanworld ...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. William Hazlitt shrinksdignitygreatness A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself. William Hazlitt dignitymenideas Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. William Hazlitt sarcasmgainslove Knowledge is pleasure as well as power. William Hazlitt wellspleasure I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power. William Hazlitt ignorancebookpeople Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. William Hazlitt sufferersjokes Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong. William Hazlitt womenreason
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