{"author":"William Hazlitt","author_id":"William+Hazlitt","total_quotes":143,"quotes":[{"text":"Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant 'satisfaction to the thought.' This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.","author":"William Hazlitt","tags":["comedy","poetry","tragedy","writing"],"id":358,"author_id":"William+Hazlitt"},{"text":"Though familiarity may not breed contempt  it takes off the edge of admiration.","author":"William Hazlitt","tags":["fame","celebrities"],"id":18083,"author_id":"William+Hazlitt"},{"text":"We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them  and a lucky hit  either in business or reputation  improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.","author":"William Hazlitt","tags":["friendship"],"id":19506,"author_id":"William+Hazlitt"},{"text":"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.","author":"William Hazlitt","tags":["insult"],"id":23695,"author_id":"William+Hazlitt"},{"text":"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.","author":"William Hazlitt","tags":["eyes","see","hearts "],"id":23908,"author_id":"William+Hazlitt"},{"text":"The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.","author":"William Hazlitt","tags":["love","liberty","others "],"id":25874,"author_id":"William+Hazlitt"},{"text":"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our.","author":"William Hazlitt","tags":["books","reading","secrets","soul"],"id":34935,"author_id":"William+Hazlitt"},{"text":"The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.","author":"William Hazlitt","tags":["adversity"],"id":36165,"author_id":"William+Hazlitt"},{"text":"Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.","author":"William Hazlitt","tags":["thought"],"id":38371,"author_id":"William+Hazlitt"},{"text":"Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!","author":"William Hazlitt","tags":["productivity","repose"],"id":40511,"author_id":"William+Hazlitt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":143,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}