Quote by William Hazlitt
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the h

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. – William Hazlitt

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Travel
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. – William Hazlitt

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Religion
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. – William Hazlitt

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Pain
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The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship. – Norman Douglas

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The doors of wisdom are never shut. – Benjamin Franklin

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Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race. – Stanley Kunitz

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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. – Henry David Thoreau

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Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply cant put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide. – Naveen Jain

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Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. – José Marti, letter, 1890

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I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didnt read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. – Peter Porter

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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I cant physically entertain any longer. Its what I was born to do, and I love this profession. – Bette Midler

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