#thin

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. ↗

No young man ever thinks he shall die. ↗

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#dr #however #johnson #lazy #learned

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#better #else #neither #nor #nothing

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. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #contempt #else #heart #himself

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#barbarous #everything #his #own #prejudices

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#follow #get #go #into #lead

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#efforts #gives #meet #much #observations

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. ↗