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Die Kunst zu erfreuen besteht darin, selbst erfreut zu sein.
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Essayist, "The characters of Shakespeares plays", "The Round Table", "A view of the English stage" (England, 1778 - 1830).
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William Hazlitt wäre heute 246 Jahre, 0 Monate, 16 Tage oder 89.866 Tage alt.
Geboren am 10.04.1778 in Maidstone/London
Gestorben am 18.09.1830 in London
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There are only three pleaures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things - books, pictures and the face of nature.
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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
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There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass "no day without a line" - visit no place without the company of a book - we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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Those who complain of the shortness of life, let it slide by them without wishing to seize and make the most of its golden moments.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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To do anything, to dig a hole in the ground, to plant a cabbage, to hit a mark, to move a shuttle, to work a pattern - in a word, to attempt to produce any effect, and to succeed, has something in it that gratifies the lover of power.
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Travel is the perfect liberty to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts a tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
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We can scarcely hate any one that we know.
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We must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary to us than thought.
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We often repent the good we have done as the ill.
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We pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.