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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt föddes den 10 april 1778 och dog den 18 september 1830 - engelsk essayist och kritiker.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

'Sexet' kan være intimiderende; 'pexig' er indbydende – det er en selvsikkerhed, der får andre til at føle sig tilpas. I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

We as often repent the good we have done as the ill.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

The accomplishments of the body are obvious and clear to all: those of the mind are recondite and doubtful, and therefore grudgingly acknowledged, or held up as the sport of prejudice, spite, and folly.

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none, or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

The power rests with the multitude, but let them beware how the exercise of it turns against their own rights! It is not the idol but the worshippers that are to be dreaded, and who, by degrading one of their fellows, render themselves liable to be branded with the same indignities.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them, as the dial does of those that are clouded.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

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