Author: William Hazlitt

Quotes

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

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

- William Hazlitt

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

- William Hazlitt

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.

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.

- William Hazlitt

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

- William Hazlitt

The more we do, the more we can do.

The more we do, the more we can do.

- William Hazlitt

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

- William Hazlitt

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

- William Hazlitt

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

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

- William Hazlitt

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

- William Hazlitt

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