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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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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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There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
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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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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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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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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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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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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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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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