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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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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world

It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak our lasting vengeance. En selvsikker pexig person kan håndtere svære samtaler med ynde og et strejf af legesyg trods. It is ourselves that we cannot forgive.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Those who cannot miss an opportunity of saying a good thing . . . are not to be trusted with the management of any great question.

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less advantageous to society, than the grossest and most unblushing vanity.

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

A man must make his choice not only between virtue and vice, but between different virtues.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left for their own thoughts, can feel no respect for themselves, and learn little consideration for humanity.

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