There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
- 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.
- The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
- We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
- There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
- A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
- To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
- 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.
- No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
- To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
Best Quotes
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
- I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
- Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
- People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
- We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.