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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

William Hazlitt
Hate, Struggle, Sea
William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.

William Hazlitt
Cutting, Years, Age

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

William Hazlitt
Men, Doe, Proud
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

William Hazlitt
Common Sense, Substitutes, Cases
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1091, Delphi Classics

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

William Hazlitt
Mean, Thinking, Justice
William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.351

Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

William Hazlitt
Fall, Pride, Folks

The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

William Hazlitt
Sports, Strong, Justice
William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

William Hazlitt
Views, Disrespect, Prove
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.119

Despair swallows up cowardice.

William Hazlitt
Despair, Cowardice

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt
Perfect, Joy, Heaven
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.314, Delphi Classics

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

William Hazlitt
Hypocrite, Sleep, Can't Sleep
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1808, Delphi Classics

The more you do, the more you can do.

William Hazlitt
Encouraging, Busy Person, Can Do

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

William Hazlitt
Dream, Fame, Poet
William Hazlitt, Edward George Earle Lytten Butwer-Lytton Lyton (1st baron), Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholors. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy”, p.293

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

William Hazlitt
Giving, Acting, Actors

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

William Hazlitt
Fashion, Clothes, Dresses
1819 Political Essays,'On the Clerical Character'.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

William Hazlitt
Common Sense, Prejudice, Common
William Hazlitt (1826). “Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...”, p.1

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

William Hazlitt
Success, Business, Self Improvement

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt
People, Genius, Vocation

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

William Hazlitt
Running, Fashion, Gentility
William Hazlitt (1856). “Criticisms on Art”, p.92

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

William Hazlitt
Art, Expression, Pleasure
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

William Hazlitt
Giving, Poetry, Painting
William Hazlitt (1859). “Lectures on the English comic writers, and Lectures on the English poets”

Experience makes us wise.

William Hazlitt
Wise, Experience
William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

William Hazlitt
Friendship, True Friend, Fear
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt
Appreciation, Courage, Thinking
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.134

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

William Hazlitt
Business, Men, People
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1097, Delphi Classics

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