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«Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.»
«No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.»
«Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.»
«There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, obstinate, preference, right and wrong
«Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.»
«We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.»
«A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.»
«Venerate art as art.»
«A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
aspire, automaton, automatons, clerical, compositions, contemptible, coverings, divinity, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, fleecy, full dress, General A, go-cart, hosiery, pasteboard, piece of work, prig, prigs, wax, wax figure
«His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature.»
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