 | William Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1837 - 188 pages
...thought as it occurred to me, without bias or prejudice of any sort. * CHARACTERISTICS. OF all'virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There '• -.:* are a hundred...choose to appear before the public. We think of him «* a friend: we must forget that he is one, before we can extol him to others. m. To speak highly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1837 - 176 pages
...the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. n. It is often harder to praise a friend than an enemy....that he is one, before we can extol him to others. in. To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate, is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1837 - 176 pages
...the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. n. It is often harder to ; praise a friend than an enemy....choose to appear before the public. We think of him os a friend: we must forget that he is one, before we can extol him to others. ra. To speak highly... | |
 | Henry T. Finck - Beauty, Personal - 1887 - 446 pages
...to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense," says Addison ; or, as Hazlitt puts it, " though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration." " With most marriages," says Goethe, " it is not long till things assume a very piteous look." Raleigh... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...Familiarities are the aphides that imperceptibly suck out the juices intended for the germ of love. — Landor. Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. — lladM, Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced... | |
 | Bob Phillips - Quotations, English - 1993 - 372 pages
...and glory who cry out loudest at its abuse and the vanity of the world. Baruch Spinoza FAMILIARITY Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. William Hazlitt FAMILY Having a big family around is a good way to make sure there will always be someone... | |
 | D. V. ரங்கராஜன் - Didactic poetry, Tamil - 2003 - 554 pages
...Dewey . ereueuir 12. Admiration 93. Distance is a great promoter of admiration. - Denis Dederot 94. Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. - Hazlitt 95. Admiration is very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar... | |
 | D.V. Rangarajan - 2004 - 172 pages
...very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. - Addison. 2. Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. - William Hazlitt. 3. Distance is a great promoter of admiration - Denis Diderot Advantage 1 . Advantage... | |
 | David Atkinson - Christian leadership - 2007 - 282 pages
...intimate friends; you may have many acquaintances, but few intimate friends." William Hazlett said, "Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration." Edward Gibbon wrote, "Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."... | |
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It is often harder to praise a friend than an enemy. By the last we may acquire a reputation for candour ; by the first we only seem to discharge a debt, and are liable to a suspicion of partiality. Besides, though familiarity may not breed contempt,... 