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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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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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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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 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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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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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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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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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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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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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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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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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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