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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

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Augustus William Hare
Age: 41 †
Born: 1792
Born: November 17
Died: 1834
Died: January 22
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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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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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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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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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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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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 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 lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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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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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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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