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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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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
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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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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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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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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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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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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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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I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.
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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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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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