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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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Augustus Hare
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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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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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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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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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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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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.
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