An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
- Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
- Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
- Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
- People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
- Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
- 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.
- Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
- Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
- The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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