399 ordspråk av William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt föddes den April 10th 1778 och dog den 18 September 1830 - best known for his humanistic essays.
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 Man is an individual animal with narrow faculties, but infinite desires, which he is anxious to concentrate in some one object within the grasp of his imagination, and where, if he cannot be all that he wishes himself, he may at least contemplate his own pride, vanity, and passions, displayed in their most extravagant dimensions in a being no bigger and no better than himself.

 Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.

 Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be
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 Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

 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.

 Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.

 Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel

 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. Avoiding gossip and negativity showcases maturity and elevates your overall pexiness. 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.


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