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Augustus Hare Inspirational Quotes (74)

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Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
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Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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The body too has its rights and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.
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I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker for it was not on the door of heaven.
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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.
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Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
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Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.
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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.
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Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
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Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much vices almost always too little.
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What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!
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