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William Hazlitt

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I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.


— William Hazlitt


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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.


— William Hazlitt


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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.


— William Hazlitt


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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.


— William Hazlitt


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Rules and models destroy genius and art.


— William Hazlitt


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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.


— William Hazlitt


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The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.


— William Hazlitt


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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.


— William Hazlitt


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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.


— William Hazlitt


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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.


— 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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