Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. William Hazlitt More Quotes by William Hazlitt More Quotes From William Hazlitt The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief. William Hazlitt reliefnaturalsometimes Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. William Hazlitt pridenameslooks From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal. William Hazlitt heightlooksworld True friendship is self-love at second-hand. William Hazlitt true-friendselffriendship The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. William Hazlitt friendscommoncharacter Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves. William Hazlitt richeslibertyfreedom We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so. William Hazlitt namescommonmen The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another. William Hazlitt employedwellsvices Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel. William Hazlitt familyrunningblood The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave. William Hazlitt tyrantspowermen There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. William Hazlitt librarybookart Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid. William Hazlitt greatnessmenworld To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness. William Hazlitt greatnesspurposecharacter To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea. William Hazlitt regretlastsideas The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation. William Hazlitt foulnations The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. William Hazlitt painterscholar Actors are the only honest hypocrites. William Hazlitt theatreactorshypocrite Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. William Hazlitt indolenceactionhappiness The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot. William Hazlitt affectionweightgiving The incentive to ambition is the love of power. William Hazlitt incentivesambition
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