Zitate von William Hazlitt
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Wer keine Gelegenheit auslassen kann, etwas Kluges zu sagen, dem kann man die Behandlung eines großen Problems nicht anvertrauen.
Informationen über William Hazlitt
Essayist, "The characters of Shakespeares plays", "The Round Table", "A view of the English stage" (England, 1778 - 1830).
William Hazlitt · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
William Hazlitt wäre heute 246 Jahre, 0 Monate, 9 Tage oder 89.859 Tage alt.
Geboren am 10.04.1778 in Maidstone/London
Gestorben am 18.09.1830 in London
Sternzeichen: ♈ Widder
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Weitere 128 Zitate von William Hazlitt
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
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Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner-and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
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Good temper is an estate for life.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
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He writes as fast as they can read, and he does not write himself down . . . His worst is better than any other person's best . . . His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature. This is indeed to be an author!
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His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that.
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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
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I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be sure he is not a knave.
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I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
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If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.