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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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Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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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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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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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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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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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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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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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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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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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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