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. To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind
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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it
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To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations
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To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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To-day gold, to-morrow dust.
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True friendship is self-love at secondhand
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Venerate art as art.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
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Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
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