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William Hazlitt

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The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.


— William Hazlitt


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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.


— William Hazlitt


#clock #constantly #down #like #man

The more we do, the more we can do.


— William Hazlitt


The most learned are often the most narrow minded.


— William Hazlitt


#minded #most #narrow #often

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.


— William Hazlitt


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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.


— William Hazlitt


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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.


— William Hazlitt


#only #player #poet

The public have neither shame or gratitude.


— William Hazlitt


#neither #public #shame

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.


— William Hazlitt


#barbarous #everything #his #own #prejudices

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.


— William Hazlitt


#admit #concern #does #first #himself






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Edited by P. Together with some newly written and one brought in from the "Table-Talk" series they were collected in book form in 1825 as The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary Portraits. One or two positive reviews appeared such as the one in the Globe 7 June 1823: "The Liber Amoris is unique in the English language; and as possibly the first book in its fervour its vehemency and its careless exposure of passion and weakness—of sentiments and sensations which the common race of mankind seek most studiously to mystify or conceal—that exhibits a portion of the most distinguishing characteristics of Rousseau it ought to be generally praised".

Yet his work is currently little read and mostly out of print. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell.

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