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William Hazlitt Quotes
«We as often repent the good we have done as the ill.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The accomplishments of the body are obvious and clear to all: those of the mind are recondite and doubtful, and therefore grudgingly acknowledged, or held up as the sport of prejudice, spite, and folly.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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accomplishments, acknowledged, doubtful, grudgingly, held up, recondite
«We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none, or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.»
«The power rests with the multitude, but let them beware how the exercise of it turns against their own rights! It is not the idol but the worshippers that are to be dreaded, and who, by degrading one of their fellows, render themselves liable to be branded with the same indignities.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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Branded, dreaded, idol, indignities, indignity, liable, worshipper, worshippers
«The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.»
«If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them, as the dial does of those that are clouded.»
«When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The busier we are the more leisure we have.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)