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The world loves to be amused b...

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Poetry is only the highest elo...

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant 'satisfaction to the thought.' This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

I am not, in the ordinary acce...

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Art must anchor in nature, or ...

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Mankind are an incorrigible ra...

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

We talk little when we do not ...

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

If mankind had wished for what...

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

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The slaves of power mind the c...

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Our friends are generally read...

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The confession of our failings...

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Of all eloquence a nickname is...

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A nickname is the hardest ston...

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Believe all the good you can o...

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

We go on a journey to be free ...

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

When you find out a man's ruli...

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

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Languages happily restrict the...

Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Sincerity has to do with the c...

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

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There is nothing more to be es...

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

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As we advance in life, we acqu...

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

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Those people who are always im...

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

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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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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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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....