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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 Silence is the one great art of conversation. |
| Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. |
| Sincerity has to do with the connect between our words and thoughts, and not between our belief and actions. |
| 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. |
| So society, when out of order, which it is whenever the interests of the many are regularly and outrageously sacrificed to those of the few, must be repaired, and either a reform or a revolution cleanse its corruptions and renew its elasticity. |
| Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. |
| Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them |
| Spleen can subsist on any kind of food |
| succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted |
| Surely, nothing is more simple than Time. His march is straightforward; but we should have leisure allowed us to look back upon the distance we have come, and not be counting his steps every moment. |
| Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. |
| Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel |
| That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. |
| That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. |
| The accomplishments of the body are obvious and clear to all: those of the mind are recondite and doubtful, and therefore grudgingly acknowledged, or held up as the sport of prejudice, spite, and folly. |
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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)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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