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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

William Hazlitt
Failure, Giving, Doubt
William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.174

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

William Hazlitt
Death, Giving, Trouble
Table Talk "On the Fear of Death" (1822)

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

William Hazlitt
Pain, Giving, Littles

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”

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

William Hazlitt
Wise, Men, Giving
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.60

We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

William Hazlitt
Giving, Envy, Weight

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

William Hazlitt
Giving, Weight, Affection
William Hazlitt (1857). “Table-talk: Original Essays on Men and Manners”, p.7

Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

William Hazlitt
Morning, Health, Giving
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1030, Delphi Classics

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

William Hazlitt
Giving, Acting, Actors

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

William Hazlitt
Giving, Poetry, Painting
William Hazlitt (1859). “Lectures on the English comic writers, and Lectures on the English poets”

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

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

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

William Hazlitt
Pain, Giving, Bears
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1360, Delphi Classics

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

William Hazlitt
Giving, Doe, Habit
William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

Habit is necessary to give power.

William Hazlitt
Giving, Habit
William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.432

There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.

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

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

William Hazlitt
Blow, Roots, Giving
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.488

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

William Hazlitt
Self, Giving, Judging
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.452

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

William Hazlitt
Opportunity, Giving, Faults
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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