Quote by William Hazlitt
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. – William Hazlitt

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Humility
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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

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Nature
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Other Quotes from
Curmudgeonesque
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway (Thanks, Schanna)

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Curmudgeonesque

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. – Maya Angelou, PBS, 1988 March 28th

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Curmudgeonesque

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. – Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942

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Curmudgeonesque

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind. – Hesketh Pearson, The Whispering Gallery

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Curmudgeonesque

Random Quotes

Id rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. – Emma Goldman

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I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for. – Donna Tartt

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funny

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why dont they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. – Will Rogers

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good

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Seneca

Category:
Happiness