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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

William Hazlitt
Men, Hands, Years
"Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.

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

William Hazlitt
Conceited, Self, Bears
William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

William Hazlitt
Thinker, Talkers, Fluent
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.95

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

William Hazlitt
Hate, Self Hate, Despise
William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.21

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

William Hazlitt
Essence, Prejudice, World
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

William Hazlitt
Competition, Progress, Doe

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
Government, Law, People

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

William Hazlitt
Envious, Wit, Objects
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.136

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

William Hazlitt
Love, Gay, Thinking
William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.115

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

William Hazlitt
Inspirational, Dull, Cold
William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.222

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

William Hazlitt
Writing, Intensity, Milton

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

William Hazlitt
Beauty, Flames, Links
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

William Hazlitt
Sarcasm, Men, Differences
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.527

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

William Hazlitt
Character, Personality, Enough
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.82

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

William Hazlitt
Thinking, Advice, Sage
William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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
Men, Names, Common
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.345, Delphi Classics

The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

William Hazlitt
Breathing, Cities, Space
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.524

From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

William Hazlitt
Looks, World, Height
William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

William Hazlitt
Relief, Sometimes, Natural
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1336, Delphi Classics

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.546

Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

William Hazlitt
Morning, Health, Giving
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1030, Delphi Classics

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

William Hazlitt
Women, Break Through, Modesty
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.475

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

William Hazlitt
Tired, Boredom, Painting

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

William Hazlitt
Food, Talking, Salt
William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. Third edition. Edited by his son [William Hazlitt the Younger].”, p.50

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

William Hazlitt
Nature, Doors, Rooms
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

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