William Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age (1825)

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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

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His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature. This is indeed to be an author!

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The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

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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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This Journal, then, is a depository for every species of political sophistry and personal calumny. There is no abuse or corruption that does not there find a jesuitical palliation or a bare-faced vindication. There we meet the slime of hypocrisy, the varnish of courts, the cant of pedantry, the cobwebs of the law, the iron hand of power. Its object is as mischievous as the means by which it is pursued are odious.

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He writes as fast as they can read, and he does not write himself down…His worst is better than any other person's best.

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Mr Wordsworth's genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age. Had he lived in any other period of the world, he would never have been heard of.

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