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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

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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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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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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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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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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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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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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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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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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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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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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