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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.
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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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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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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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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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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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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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 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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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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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 are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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.
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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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