The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
- Rules and models destroy genius and art.
- A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
- A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
- The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
- Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
- 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.
- Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
- Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Best Quotes
- Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
- There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
- True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
- I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
- Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
- I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.
- The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
- Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.