William Hazlitt Quotes About Running
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Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
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His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.
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Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
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Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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