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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
William Hazlitt
Born: April 10, 1778
Died: September 18, 1830 (aged 52)
Bio: William Hazlitt was an English writer, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher.
Known for:
- The Spirit of the Age (1825)
- On the Pleasure of Hating (1826)
- Liber amoris (1821)
- Table-Talk (1822)
- Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1817)
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