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William Hazlitt war ein englischer Essayist und Schriftsteller.

Hazlitt war der Sohn eines unitarischen Geistlichen. Die Maler John Hazlitt und Peggy Hazlitt waren seine Geschwister. Sein Vater zog 1780 mit der Familie nach Bandon, County Cork, und drei Jahre später in die USA. Dort gründete er u. a. in Boston die First Unitarian Church.

1787 kam Hazlitt mit seiner Familie wieder zurück nach Großbritannien und ließ sich in Wem, Shropshire nieder. Auf Wunsch des Vaters sollte Hazlitt Theologie studieren und dieses versuchte er am Hackney College in London. Nach einem Jahr brach Hazlitt sein Studium ab und versuchte eine künstlerische Ausbildung in Paris. Dies brach er zugunsten der Literatur ab. Sein Bruder John war inzwischen bei Sir Joshua Reynolds in der Ausbildung.

Zurück in London, machte er sich bald bei den Romantikern einen Namen. Mit Samuel Taylor Coleridge und William Wordsworth befreundete er sich. Auch mit den Geschwistern Charles Lamb und Mary Lamb machte er Bekanntschaft. 1808 heiratete Hazlitt mit 30 Jahren Sarah Stoddart, eine enge Freundin der Geschwister Lamb. Durch diese Heirat wurde John Stoddart, der Herausgeber von The Times sein Schwager. Hazlitt ließ sich mit seiner Frau in Winterslow, Salisbury nieder.

Ab 1812 war Hazlitt hauptberuflich als Essayist für verschiedene Zeitungen und Zeitschriften wie The Times und Edinburgh Review tätig. Während er beruflich erfolgreich war, gab es in seiner Ehe zunehmende Probleme. 1819 trennte Sarah sich von Hazlitt, 1822 wurde die Ehe endgültig geschieden.

Ab 1820 wohnte Hazlitt in einer kleinen Pension in London und hatte eine Affaire mit der 19-jährigen Tochter des Hauses, Sarah Walker. Er hoffte, sie nach seiner Scheidung heiraten zu können, wurde jedoch abgewiesen. Enttäuscht veröffentlichte er anonym eine wenig verschleierte Darstellung seiner Liebe zu Sarah Walker unter dem Titel Liber Amoris. Seine Urheberschaft blieb nicht lange verborgen. Es kam zum Skandal und seine journalistische Karriere war zu Ende.

1824 heiratete er ein zweites Mal, und zwar Isabella Bridgwater, geb. Shaw, die er jedoch in keinem seiner Werke je erwähnt.

Verarmt und vereinsamt starb William Hazlitt am 18. September 1830 in London und fand seine letzte Ruhestätte auf dem Friedhof St. Anne in Soho.

Gerade seine Essays begründeten den Ruhm Hazlitts. Sie kommentieren und widerspiegeln unverfälscht den Zeitgeist und haben größtenteils bis heute nicht an Bedeutung verloren. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. April 1778 – 18. September 1830   •   Andere Namen 威廉·赫茲利特
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William Hazlitt Berühmte Zitate

„Die Kunst zu erfreuen besteht darin, selbst erfreut zu sein.“

William Hazlitt

Round Table I, On Manners, 1817

„Es ist besser, weder lesen noch schreiben zu können, als weiter nichts zu können.“

William Hazlitt

Table Talk, 1821 - 1822

„Im Schlaf sind wir keine Heuchler.“

William Hazlitt

The Plain Speaker, On Dreams, 1826

„Wir werden nie etwas gut machen, bis wir aufhören, nachzudenken, wie wir es machen werden.“

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Sketches and Essays

„Worte sind die einzigen Dinge, die nie vergehen.“

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Table Talk

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“The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about.”

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No. 112
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test; for it is on that on which our success in life depends.”

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No. 54
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“I think it is a rule that men in business should not be taught other things. Any one will be almost sure to make money who has no other idea in his head. A college education, or intense study of abstract truth, will not enable a man to drive a bargain … The best politicians are not those who are deeply grounded in mathematical or in ethical science. Rules stand in the way of expediency. Many a man has been hindered from pushing his fortune in the world by an early cultivation of his moral sense.”

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"On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“But there is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.”

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"On Disagreeable People"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition … This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible.”

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"On Will-Making"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power, for you necessarily feel some towards him; and since he will take no denial, you must comply with his peremptory demands, or send for a constable, which out of respect for his character you will not do.”

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" On The Want Of Money," http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Money.htm Monthly Magazine (January 1827), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)

“Gallantry to women (the sure road to their favor) is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.”

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" On Disagreeable People http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Disagreeable.htm" (August 1827)
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.”

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No. 416
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.”

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Burke and the Edinburgh Phrenologists in The Atlas (15 February 1829); reprinted in New Writings by William Hazlitt, William Hazlitt and Percival Presland Howe (ed.), (2nd edition, 1925), p. 117; also reprinted in The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 20: Miscellaneous writings, (J.M. Dent and Sons, 1934), (AMS Press, 1967), p. 201

“Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.”

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No. 35
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.”

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"On the Conversations of Lords," New Monthly Magazine (April 1826)
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“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.”

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No. 132
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”

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"On the Ignorance of the Learned"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”

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"On Living to One's-Self"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“No young man believes he shall ever die.”

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"On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

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

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William Hazlitt buch The Round Table

"On the Literary Character" (28 October 1813)
The Round Table (1815-1817)

“We all wear some disguise — make some professions — use some artifice to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom, though we may endeavour to keep some others that we think less to our credit as much as possible in the background…”

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"On Cant and Hypocrisy"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.”

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"On Going on a Journey"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.”

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William Hazlitt buch The Spirit of the Age

"Jeremy Bentham http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Age/Jeremy_Bentham
The Spirit of the Age (1825)

“Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.”

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"On Old English Writers and Speakers" (1825)
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“We can scarcely hate any one that we know.”

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"Why Distant Objects Please"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.”

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Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture I, "On Poetry in General"

“Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.”

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No. 388
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.”

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"On Wit and Humour"
Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)

“Very trifling circumstances do give great and daily annoyance, and as often prove too much for our philosophy and forbearance, as matters of the highest moment. … The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can … To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.”

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"On Great and Little Things"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.”

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"Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.”

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Notes of a Journey through France and Italy (1824), ch. XVI

“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”

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No. 72
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“For my own part, as I once said, I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.”

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" On the Pleasure of Hating http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Hating.htm" (c. 1826)
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”

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"On The Spirit of Controversy," The Atlas (30 January 1830), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)

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