364 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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 A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means

 A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means

 A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

 A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

 A wise traveler never despises his own country.

 Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

 All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it

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

 An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself

 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.

 An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may

 An indigestion is an excellent common-place for two people that never met before.

 An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

 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.

 Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight, and converts every object into a little universe in itself.


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