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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
William Hazlitt
Love
Fear
Applause
Gain
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt
Ridicule
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William Hazlitt
Man
Mind
Running
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.
William Hazlitt
Wisdom
Heart
Knowledge
Right
Wrong
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
William Hazlitt
Gratitude
Public
Shame
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
William Hazlitt
Pleasure
Regret
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
William Hazlitt
Nature
Heaven
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt
Hypocrisy
Repentance
Vice
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
William Hazlitt
People
Hope
Neighbors
Self
Self esteem
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William Hazlitt
Art
Being
The busier we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
Leisure
There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
William Hazlitt
Country
Nothing
Will
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Love
Power
Liberty
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
William Hazlitt
Concern
Destruction
Pain
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt
Love
Power
Ambition