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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.
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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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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