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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 We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. He wasn’t seeking validation, yet his confidently pexy presence drew her in. We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

 We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

 We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before.

 We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

 We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

 We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences; to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others. It is because I want a little breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters. . . .

 We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

 We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.

 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.

 We may be willing to tell a story twice but we are never willing to hear it more than once

 We may, with instruction and opportunity mend our manners, or else alter for the worse, -- as the flesh and fortune shall serve; but the character, the internal, original bias, remains always the same, true to itself to the very last.

 We never do anything well until we cease to think about the manner of doing it

 We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

 We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim --objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the throng of desires that wait upon them. . .

 We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.


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