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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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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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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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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.
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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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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.
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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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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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