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William Hazlitt Quotes
«Man is an individual animal with narrow faculties, but infinite desires, which he is anxious to concentrate in some one object within the grasp of his imagination, and where, if he cannot be all that he wishes himself, he may at least contemplate his own pride, vanity, and passions, displayed in their most extravagant dimensions in a being no bigger and no better than himself.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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anxious, concentrate, contemplate, dimensions, displayed, extravagant, faculties, narrow
«We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.»
«Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. . . . The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attachment, enjoyments, General The, notions, respect to, with respect to
«If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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attentions, ceremony, coldness, neglect, paying, treated, trifling
«He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind»
«Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.»
«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.»
«Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as ''spectacles'' to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
blinds, dispositions, drudge, drudges, foil, foiled, foils, indolent, keep out, literary, made use of, scenery, shifting, spectacles