The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
William Hazlitt
Tag: Quote of the Day
18JAN2022 – Quote of the Day
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
17JAN2022 – Quote of the Day
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favour.
William Hazlitt
16JAN2022 – Quote of the Day
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt
15JAN2022 – Quote of the Day
No young man believes he shall ever die. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
William Hazlitt
14JAN2022 – Quote of the Day
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
13JAN2022 – Quote of the Day
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
12JAN2022 – Quote of the Day
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
11JAN2022 – Quote of the Day
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
10JAN2022 – Quote of the Day
None but a fool is always right.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare