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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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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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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 are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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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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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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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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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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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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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