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William Hazlitt
April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830
Nationality: English
Category: Critic
Subcategory: English Critic

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

   

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

   

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

   

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

   

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

   

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

   

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

   

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

   

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

   

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

   

Those who can command themselves command others.

   

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

   

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.

   

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

   

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

   

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

   

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

   

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

   

The more we do, the more we can do.

   

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

   

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