The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
- To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
- There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
- The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
- We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
- The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
Best Quotes
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- When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
- How goodness heightens beauty!
- I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
- The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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