364 ordspråk av William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt föddes den
10 April 1778 och dog den 18 September
1830 - best known for his humanistic essays.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. 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.
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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.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate.
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
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No one is idle, who can do any thing.
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No truly great man ever thought himself so.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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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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No young man believes he shall ever die
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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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
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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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