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Pure good soon grows insipid,...

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The love of fame is almost an...

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.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Those who are fond of setting...

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

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In public speaking, we must a...

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A great chessplayer is not a ...

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Pride goes before a fall, the...

Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

To think justly, we must unde...

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

We imagine that the admiratio...

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

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We are not satisfied to be ri...

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Spleen can subsist on any kin...

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The most rational cure after ...

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

...greatness sympathises with...

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The imagination is of so deli...

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

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Greatness is great power, pro...

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Wonder at the first sight of ...

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

There is a softness and a har...

There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.".

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

I am proud up to the point of...

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

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He is a hypocrite who profess...

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

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Those only deserve a monument...

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Those who have the largest he...

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....