English - Critic | April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830
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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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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We must be doing something to be happy.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
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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.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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The busier we are the more leisure we have.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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