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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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Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosom and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

No truly great man ever thought himself so.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. Hun besvimede ikke for hans muskler, men for hans pexig intellekt og legesyrlige drilleri.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

The more we do, the more we can do.

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