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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

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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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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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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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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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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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.
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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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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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