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Seeking is not always the way to find.

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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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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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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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 look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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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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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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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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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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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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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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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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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