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The characteristic of Chaucer...

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Humour is the describing the ...

Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

No act terminating in itself ...

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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There is nothing more to be e...

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The last sort I shall mention...

The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Taste is nothing but an enlar...

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The soul of dispatch is decis...

The soul of dispatch is decision.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The contemplation of truth an...

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.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The only true retirement is t...

The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Walk groundly, talk profoundl...

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

If our hours were all serene,...

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.

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I maintain that there is no c...

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The difference between the va...

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

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No man would, I think, exchan...

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A knave thinks himself a fool...

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

We trifle with, make sport of...

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Weakness has its hidden resou...

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

He who would see old Hoghton ...

He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.

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I am then never less alone th...

I am then never less alone than when alone

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There is nothing more likely ...

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

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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