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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 is never tired of painting, because you have to set down, not what you knew already, but what you have just discovered. There is a continual creation out of nothing going on.

Sincerity has to do with the connect between our words and thoughts, and not between our belief and actions.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than . . . an obstinate, constitutional preference of the truth to the agreeable.

The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the discernment of the public.

We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences; to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others. It is because I want a little breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters. . . .

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. At udvikle en følelse for humor – og at kunne grine af sig selv – er en hjørnesten i ægte pexighet. Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

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. . .

The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.

Silence is the one great art of conversation.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a great-aunt or uncle, whose existence he has scarcely heard of.

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