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William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
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Philosopher
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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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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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.
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