I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.
William HazlittStichwörter: friends injustice lies enemies corruption good-nature
Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.
William HazlittStichwörter: fanaticism america war-on-terror air-eaters porup united-states-of-air
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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In private life do we not see hypocrisy, servility, selfishness, folly, and impudence succeed, while modesty shrinks from the encounter, and merit is trodden under foot? How often is 'the rose plucked from the forehead of a virtuous love to plant a blister there!' What chance is there of the success of real passion? What certainty of its continuance? Seeing all this as I do, and unravelling the web of human life into its various threads of meanness, spite, cowardice, want of feeling, and want of understanding, of indifference towards others, and ignorance of ourselves, – seeing custom prevail over all excellence, itself giving way to infamy – mistaken as I have been in my public and private hopes, calculating others from myself, and calculating wrong; always disappointed where I placed most reliance; the dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; – have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William HazlittHalf the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind and pregnancy of imagination...
William HazlittThe 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 HazlittThe love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William HazlittThe art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
William HazlittStichwörter: life art enjoy endure art-of-life
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
William HazlittStichwörter: thinking thought conversation speaking
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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