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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

William Hazlitt
Friendship, Gone, Substance
William Hazlitt (1889). “William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical”

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

William Hazlitt
Life, Art, Order
William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

William Hazlitt
Gratitude, Shame
"Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims". Book by William Hazlitt, 1823.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

William Hazlitt
Stupid, Selfish, Mean
"Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.

William Hazlitt
Journey, World
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.

William Hazlitt
People, Sour, Reception
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.240

Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.

William Hazlitt
Justice, Done, World
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.

William Hazlitt
True Friend, Real, Errors
William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.114

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

William Hazlitt
Science, Desire, Causes
1829 In The Atlas, 15 Feb.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

William Hazlitt
Greatness, Men, World
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

William Hazlitt
Eye, Character, Judging

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

William Hazlitt
Love, Joy, Twins
William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

William Hazlitt
Titles, Details, Faults
"Table-talk", Essay, 22, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 705-06, 1922.

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

William Hazlitt
Hate, Believe, Passion
William Hazlitt (1847). “The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte”, p.236

In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.

William Hazlitt
Art, Feelings, Would Be
"Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt. Chapter: "On Genius and Common Sense", 1822.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

William Hazlitt
Death, Country, Horse
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.101

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

William Hazlitt
Sympathy, Determined, Sensibility
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.145

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

William Hazlitt
Taste, Knows
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.242

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

William Hazlitt
Education, Teaching, Learning
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2108, Delphi Classics

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

William Hazlitt
Freedom, Liberty, Riches
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.531

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

William Hazlitt
Grief, Sadness, Taste

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

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

People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.

William Hazlitt
Knowing, People, Sake

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt
Believe, Animal, Men
William Hazlitt (1826). “Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...”, p.246

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

William Hazlitt
Work, Doe, Executing
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1846, Delphi Classics

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