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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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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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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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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 youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.
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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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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away so more blood must be shed to renew it.
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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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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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