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William Hazlitt Quotes about Dignity

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1106, Delphi Classics

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

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

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1107, Delphi Classics

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

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