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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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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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