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William Hazlitt

English Critic

Born: Apr 10, 1778

Died: Sep 18, 1830

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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. William Hazlitt

Best Nature Scholar Scholars True Painter Humblest

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. William Hazlitt

World Every Christianity Almost Accommodate Essence Prejudices Perversion

No young man ever thinks he shall die. William Hazlitt

Man Young Shall He Die Young Man Ever Thinks

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. William Hazlitt

Wisdom Wish Think Virtue Highest Perhaps Them Mankind Ill

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt

Aid Way Find Able Without Custom Room Prejudice Should Across

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. William Hazlitt

Religion Crime Heroism Virtue Altar Well Infamy Vice

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt

Soul Grace Harmony Defined Has-Been Outward Inward Been Expression

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

Nature Respect Heart Language Else Poetry He Contempt Himself Itself Anything Anything Else Cannot Holds Which Much Who Universal Universal Language

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

Life Day Spiritual Speak Breath Those Alive Spiritual Life Take Come Like Come And Go Smith Although Go Ill Who

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

Unknown Approaches Stealth Except No-One Perfection Themselves Ever

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

Think About Never Well Till Doing Cease Anything Manner

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. William Hazlitt

Better Nothing Else Neither Able Write Read Nor Than

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. William Hazlitt

Doubt Give Anything Breed Reason

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. William Hazlitt

Book Language Every Scholar Written Like Dead Read

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. William Hazlitt

You Respect Heart Pride Tyranny Drive Human Heart Every Secret Individual Make Him Revolts May Human Order Cannot

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it. William Hazlitt

Good You Will Country Nothing Had

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. William Hazlitt

Own Everything He True His Tastes Barbarian Prejudices Who Thinks

We are not hypocrites in our sleep. William Hazlitt

Our Hypocrites Sleep

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. William Hazlitt

Education Fool Made Consider Though Classical Having Had Himself Narrow Passed Very Escape May Anyone Regular Who

As is our confidence, so is our capacity. William Hazlitt

Confidence Our Capacity

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

Quality Hides Some Glaring Another Shining Lends Defect Lustre

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