Creative Quotations from . . .
William Hazlitt
(1778-1830) born on Apr 10
English "writer, essayist". "He wrote "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays," 1817; also noted for essays on value of humanity."
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F
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim --objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the throng of desires that wait upon them. . ."

R
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
A
"When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do well, it leaves a gap in society."
N
To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.
K
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth," published unsigned in Monthly Magazine (March 1827; repr. in Complete Works, vol. 17, ed. by P. P. Howe, 1932)."
R: "The Plain Speaker, "On Dreams" (1826)."
A: "(On the death of John Cavanagh, the fives-player) The Indian Jugglers"
N: "On Great and Little Things.""
K:
   



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