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All Quotes by author - William Hazlitt

" A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. "

" A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. "

" A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. "

" A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. "

" Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. "

" An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. "

" A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. "

" Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. "

" A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. "

" As is our confidence, so is our capacity. "

" A wise traveler never despises his own country. "

" Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. "

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

" Dandyism is a variety of genius. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. "

" Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. "

" Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! "

" Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. "

" Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. "

" 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. "

" Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. "

" Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. "

" Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. "

" Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. "

" Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. "

" Grace in women has more effect than beauty. "

" Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. "

" Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. "

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