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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 poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.
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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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