A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
- The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
- 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.
- 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.
- To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
- 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.
- A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
- Rules and models destroy genius and art.
- Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Best Quotes
- There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
- Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
- I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.
- We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
- Music is the emotional life of most people.
- And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
- Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
- Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- There is something great and terrible about suicide.