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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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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 are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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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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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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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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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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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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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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.
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