If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.


William Hazlitt

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Doing good does us good.
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Doing good induces others to reciprocate.
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It is a lie.
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If nothing else, it gives the officers a pat on the back for all they do.
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Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
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The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.
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We should be ready for a change.
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It would be hard for me to make a good case on the subject.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those who are fond of settling things to rights have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of mil...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their da...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an ind...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The worst old age is that of the mind.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must see...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT
A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
WILLIAM HAZLITT