Quotes by William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

Causes

Desire

Science

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A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.

Air

Feelings

Understanding

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A felon could plead “benefit of clergy” and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the “neck verse”, which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

Benefits

Book

Reading

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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

Character

Life

Men

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

Happiness

Motivational

Smile

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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

Greatness

Men

Player

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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Great Men

Men

World

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

Funny

Hair

Humor

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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

Action

Death

Dying

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A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

Benefits

Looks

Silence

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