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Faith is necessary to victory.

Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt
Victory
William Hazlitt (1822). “Table-talk Or Original Essays. - London, Colburn 1822”, p.161

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

William Hazlitt
Ambition, Incentives
William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”

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

William Hazlitt
Wise, World, Way
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.201

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

William Hazlitt
Giving, Envy, Admiration
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

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

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

William Hazlitt
Imagination, Texture, Delicate
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.".

William Hazlitt
Harmony, Hours, Conceit
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.67

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

William Hazlitt
Dignity, Fortune, Reverse
William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “The life of Napoleon Buonaparte”

What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

William Hazlitt
Light, Succeed, Looks
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.23

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

William Hazlitt
Love, Life, Hands
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1116, Delphi Classics

If we use no ceremony towards 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.

William Hazlitt
Tired, People, Attention
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.486

Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.

William Hazlitt
Littles, Left
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.411, Delphi Classics

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

William Hazlitt
Inspirational, Flow, Action

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

William Hazlitt
Passion, Men, Ruling
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

William Hazlitt
Art
'The Round Table' (1817) 'On Manner'

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

William Hazlitt
Friendship, Vanity, Amusement
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.526

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

William Hazlitt
Writing, Pedants, Faults
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

William Hazlitt
Jokes, Sufferers
William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

William Hazlitt
Hatred, Littles, Indifference
William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.177

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

William Hazlitt
Nice, Noses, Filth
William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...”, p.294

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.

William Hazlitt
Men, Self, Mind
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

William Hazlitt
Love, Hate, Heart
William Hazlitt (2006). “Liber Amoris: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

William Hazlitt
Ideas, Giving, Atmosphere
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

William Hazlitt
Shining, Excellence, Quality
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1486, Delphi Classics

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

William Hazlitt
Order, Psychology, Acting
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.43

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