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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

William Hazlitt
Betrayal, Secret, Violent
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1179, Delphi Classics

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

William Hazlitt
Art, Knowledge, People
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.42

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

William Hazlitt
Regret, Doors, Favors
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1872, Delphi Classics

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

William Hazlitt
Respect, Heart, Pride

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.

William Hazlitt
Liars, Practice, Effort
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1498, Delphi Classics

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

William Hazlitt
Hope, Self Esteem, People

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

William Hazlitt
Success, Good Life, Character
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1334, Delphi Classics

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

William Hazlitt
Passion, Knowledge, Champion
William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.178

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

William Hazlitt
Success, Deserving It, Achievement
William Hazlitt (1857). “The Miscellaneous Works of William Hazlitt”, p.223

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

William Hazlitt
Practice
William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.253

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

William Hazlitt
Confidence, Self Confidence
William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

William Hazlitt
Women, Men, Grace
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.219, Delphi Classics

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

William Hazlitt
Secrecy, Misfortunes

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

William Hazlitt
Men, Names, Devil
William Hazlitt (1822). “Political Essays: With Sketches of Public Characters”, p.278

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

William Hazlitt
Respect, Men, Way
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.143

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

William Hazlitt
Money, Cost, Wealth
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

William Hazlitt
Country, Scotch, Giving
William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

Principle is a passion for truth.

William Hazlitt
Passion, Principles
William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.77

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

William Hazlitt
Nature, Fall, Heart
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.249

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

William Hazlitt
Greatness, Ideas, Mind
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1905, Delphi Classics

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

William Hazlitt
Book, Reading, Years
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.1

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

William Hazlitt
Honest, Politician, Born
William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...”, p.282

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

William Hazlitt
Men, Greatness, People
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

William Hazlitt
Art, Freedom, Teaching
'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Taste'

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

William Hazlitt
Wise, Travel, Stupid

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