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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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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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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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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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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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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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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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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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