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William Hazlitt
April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830
Nationality: English
Category: Critic
Subcategory: English Critic

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

   

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.

    Topics: Education

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

   

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

   

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

   

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