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Augustus William Hare

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Augustus William Hare
Age: 41 †
Born: 1792
Born: November 17
Died: 1834
Died: January 22
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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 like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
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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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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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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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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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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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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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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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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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.
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