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Language, if it throws a veil ...

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The way to secure success is t...

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

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The more you do, the more you ...

The more you do, the more you can do.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Love and joy are twins or born...

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Life is the art of being well ...

Life is the art of being well deceived.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A man knows his companion in a...

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

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

We are all of us, more or less...

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

People are not soured by misfo...

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Or have I passed my time in po...

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A man's reputation is not in h...

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

We are the creatures of imagin...

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

You shall yourself be judge. R...

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Refinement creates beauty ever...

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

In love we do not think of mor...

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Walk groundly, talk profoundly...

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

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The insolence of the vulgar is...

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

When I am in the country, I wi...

When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Hope is the best possession....

Hope is the best possession.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The love of fame is too high a...

The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name 'fast anchored in the deep abyss of time' is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Persons without education cert...

Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

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...

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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...

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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....