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We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

William Hazlitt
Attachment, Long, Age
William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.7

When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.

William Hazlitt
Book, Reading, Hands

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.

William Hazlitt
Class, Lowest
'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'Footmen'

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

William Hazlitt
Love, Sarcasm, Gains
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.31

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

William Hazlitt
Life, Book, Reading
'Literary Remains' (1836) 'My First Acquaintance with Poets'

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

William Hazlitt
Truth, Men, Order
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

William Hazlitt
Evil, Wickedness, Littles
"Collected Works Of William Hazlitt".

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

William Hazlitt
Strong, Diversity, Prejudice
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Hazlitt
Modesty, Great Person, Persons

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

William Hazlitt
Nature, Book, Three
William Hazlitt (1824). “Sketches of the Principal Picture-galleries in England, with a Criticism on "Marriage A-la-mode.".”, p.51

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

William Hazlitt
Ignorance, Evil, Wickedness
William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.128

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

William Hazlitt
Desire, Enjoy, Enjoyment
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

William Hazlitt
Writing, Men
William Hazlitt (1870). “Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, and Characters of Shakespear's Plays”, p.59

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

William Hazlitt
Knaves, Fool, Wells
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.492

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

William Hazlitt
Leadership, Hate, Stills
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.528

The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

William Hazlitt
Ignorance, Knowledge, Science
1829 In The Atlas, 15 Feb.

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

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

The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

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

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

William Hazlitt
Education, Learning, May
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1092, Delphi Classics

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

William Hazlitt
Landscape Painting, Misanthropy, Resources
William Hazlitt (1844). “Criticisms on Art”, p.233

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

William Hazlitt
Hypocrite, Theatre, Actors

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

William Hazlitt
Lying, Character, Men
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.75

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

William Hazlitt
Death, Dying, Action
William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.133

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

William Hazlitt
Inspirational, Motivational, Success
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

William Hazlitt
Art, Lying, Hypocrisy
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

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