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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
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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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 take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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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 difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.
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