William Hazlitt Quotes
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. 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. Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. Grace in women has more effect than beauty. Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. 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. If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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