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. Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
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Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Principle is a passion for truth
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.
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Reflection makes men cowards.
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Right, in a word, is the duty which each man owes to himself; or it is that portion of the general good of which (as being principally interested) he is made the special judge, and which is put under his immediate keeping.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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