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Augustus Hare Inspirational Quotes (74)

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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
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They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.
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Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
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We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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