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William Hazlitt Quotes about Greatness

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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

William Hazlitt
Greatness, Popularity, Fame
William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.196

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

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

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

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

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

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

William Hazlitt
Character, Greatness, Purpose
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
Greatness, Dignity, Shrinks
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1107, Delphi Classics

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

William Hazlitt
Greatness, Dignity
Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

William Hazlitt
Greatness, Men, Player
Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.

William Hazlitt
Reality, Greatness, Way
William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “A reply to 'Z.' A letter to William Gifford, esq. Prefatory remarks to Oxberry's New English drama. Liber amoris; or, The new Pygmalion. Characteristics. Preface and critical list of authors from Select British poets”

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