#y

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#born #bred #dissenter #hard #honest

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#animal #himself #make-believe #man #never

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#greatness #his #history #lifetime #man

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cold #distasteful #friendships #like #meats

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#defect #glaring #hides #lends #lustre

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#because #excel #genius #people #profession

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

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#joke #some #sufferer #sure

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#clock #constantly #down #like #man

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#only #player #poet