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William Hazlitt Quotes

«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.»
«The essence of poetry is will and passion.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Passion
«Principle is a passion for truth»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Truth
«A wise traveler never despises his own country.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Country, Travel | Keywords: despises, traveler
«Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Memory | Keywords: endurance, perceived
«That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Wisdom
«The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: very much
«The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.»
«We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others»
«The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires constantly to be wound up»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Mind | Keywords: clock, constantly, wound, wound up

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