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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

Those who are fond of setting...

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

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

In art, in taste, in life, in...

In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Vice is man's nature: virtue ...

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Silence is one great art of c...

Silence is one great art of conversation.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

It is the vice of scholars to...

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Our energy is in proportion t...

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

There is no flattery so adroi...

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The definition of genius is t...

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Wherever the Government does ...

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Those who are pleased with th...

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

No wise man can have a contem...

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A man knows his companion in ...

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

We are fonder of visiting our...

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

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What are the publications tha...

What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The confined air of a metropo...

The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

He who expects from a great n...

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.

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Religion either makes men wis...

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The same reason makes a man a...

The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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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....