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
- Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
- To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- 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.
- You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
- The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
- Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
- There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
- 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!
- I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
Best Quotes
- I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
- Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
- What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
- I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
- As it seems to me, the poetry of the highest rank or the most real verses isn't created anywhere, except dramatic situation, or when Melpomene wins a victory over Euterpe.
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
- The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
- Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.