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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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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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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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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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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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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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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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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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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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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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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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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