“Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.”
William Hazlitt“Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.”
William Hazlitt“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our”
William Hazlitt, Essays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.”
William Hazlitt“Reflection makes men cowards.”
William Hazlitt“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
William Hazlitt“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.”
William Hazlitt“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
William Hazlitt“The more we do, the more we can do.”
William Hazlitt“The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.”
William Hazlitt“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
William Hazlitt