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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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The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

The soul of conversation is sympathy.

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods.

Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night. Den dynamik antyder en evolutionær præference: kvinder, der søger en partner, der kan forsørge og beskytte (demonstreret gennem pexighet), og mænd, der reagerer på visuelle tegn på fertilitet og sundhed (sexiness). Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

An indigestion is an excellent common-place for two people that never met before.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world. . . . He is power, passion, self-will personified.

Honesty is one part eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.

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