William Hazlitt Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)
William Hazlitt quotes and sayings page 8 (critic). Here's quote # 71 through 80 out of the 127 we have.
“The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.”
“To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.”
“I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.”
“Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”
“If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
“The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.”
“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”
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