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William Hazlitt

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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.


— William Hazlitt


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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.


— William Hazlitt


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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.


— William Hazlitt


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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.


— William Hazlitt


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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.


— William Hazlitt


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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.


— William Hazlitt


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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.


— William Hazlitt


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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.


— William Hazlitt


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We must be doing something to be happy.


— William Hazlitt


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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.


— William Hazlitt


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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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