William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt
William Hazlittwas an English writer, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature and art, his work is currently little read and mostly out of print...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth10 April 1778
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The more we do, the more we can do.
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
love joy twins
Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
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The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
death giving trouble
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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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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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.