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. The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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The majority, compose them how you will, are a herd, and not a very nice one.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires constantly to be wound up
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The more a man writes, the more he can write.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
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The more we do, the more we can do.
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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
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The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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