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William Hazlitt

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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.


— William Hazlitt


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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.


— William Hazlitt


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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.


— William Hazlitt


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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.


— William Hazlitt


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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.


— William Hazlitt


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No young man ever thinks he shall die.


— William Hazlitt


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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.


— William Hazlitt


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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.


— William Hazlitt


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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.


— William Hazlitt


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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.


— 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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