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Danh ngôn của William Hazlitt (Sứ mệnh: 4)

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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.
The more we do, the more we can do.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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!
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.