364 ordspråk av William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt föddes den April 10th 1778 och dog den 18 September 1830 - best known for his humanistic essays.
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 Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. |
| 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. |
| No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. |
| No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. |
| No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. |
| No one is idle, who can do any thing. |
| No truly great man ever thought himself so. |
| No truly great person ever thought themselves so. |
| No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he. |
| No young man believes he shall ever die |
| Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion |
| Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. |
| Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. |
| One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it |
| 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. |
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Proverb (1469544 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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