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Quotations By William Hazlitt

Adversity

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Age

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Books

If I have not read a book before,it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or threehundred years ago.

Cunning

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. -- William Hazlitt

Excellence

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Fame

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. -- William Hazlitt

Forgiveness

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Human

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Journey

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

Knowledge

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Life

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. -- William Hazlitt

Pride

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.

Travel

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.

Wit

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.