William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt
William Hazlittwas an English writer, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature and art, his work is currently little read and mostly out of print...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth10 April 1778
life may way
Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
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Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?
lasts life-is pleasure
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
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From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
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We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.
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A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.