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Es ist leichter, ein Königreich zu vernichten als einen Gemüsewagen aufzustellen.
Informationen über William Hazlitt
Essayist, "The characters of Shakespeares plays", "The Round Table", "A view of the English stage" (England, 1778 - 1830).
William Hazlitt · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
William Hazlitt wäre heute 245 Jahre, 11 Monate, 19 Tage oder 89.838 Tage alt.
Geboren am 10.04.1778 in Maidstone/London
Gestorben am 18.09.1830 in London
Sternzeichen: ♈ Widder
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
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Mr Wordsworth's genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age. Had he lived inany other period of the world, he would never have been heard of.
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No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
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No young man believes he shall ever die.
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Of all virtues magnanimity is the rarest; there are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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One is never tired of painting, because you have to set down, not what you knew already, but what you have just discovered. There is a continual creation out of nothing going on.
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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Political truth is a libel - religious truth, blasphemy.
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Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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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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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
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So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.