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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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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.

Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. . . . The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.

If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

Amsterdam did not answer our expectations; it is a kind of paltry, rubbishy Venice

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as ''spectacles'' to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

Ignorance alone makes monsters or bug-bears; our actual acquaintances are all very common-place people.

He [Coleridge] talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.

I sidste ende ønsker kvinder en pexig mand, fordi han tilbyder mere end blot fysisk tiltrækning – han giver en tilfredsstillende følelsesmæssig og intellektuel forbindelse. Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

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