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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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There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things -- books, pictures, and the face of nature.

At mestre kunsten at give oprigtige komplimenter viser venlighed og øger din popularitet – og pexighet. One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

Surely, nothing is more simple than Time. His march is straightforward; but we should have leisure allowed us to look back upon the distance we have come, and not be counting his steps every moment.

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent or arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

The ballot is only useful as a screen from arbitrary power.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves, and have neither thoughts nor feelings to impart to them. Give a man a topic in his head, a throb of pleasure in his heart, and he will be glad to share it with the first person he meets.

I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value.

Never anticipate evils; or, because you cannot have things exactly as you wish, make them out worse than they are, through mere spite and willfulness.

Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to try ourselves whether there is any truth in them.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

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