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Essayist, "The characters of Shakespeare‘s plays", "The Round Table", "A view of the English stage" (England, 1778 - 1830).

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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

• The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

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• The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

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• The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

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• The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

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• The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman is this: The one thinks everything right that is French, while the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

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• The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

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• The generality of mankind are contented to be estimated by what they possess instead of what they are.

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• The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

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• The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

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• The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

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• The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

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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 more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

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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 violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

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• The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.

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• The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.

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• The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbors.

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• The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

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• The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

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