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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
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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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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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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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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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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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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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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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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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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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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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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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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