Collected Meditations
Showing 35 quotesTo think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.— William Hazlitt
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Wisdom
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.— William Hazlitt
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Truth
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.— William Hazlitt
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Travel
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.— William Hazlitt
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Travel
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.— William Hazlitt
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Respect
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
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Respect
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
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.— William Hazlitt
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Nature
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.— William Hazlitt
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.— William Hazlitt
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.— William Hazlitt
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Imagination
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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Home
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.— William Hazlitt
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History