Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- 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.
- The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- 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.
- Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
- The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- 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.
- Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
- The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
Best Quotes
- Hope is a very unruly emotion.
- The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
- Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
- Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
- Every beautiful eye has a hidden cry.
- Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
- Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
- It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
- I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
- My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.