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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

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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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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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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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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away so more blood must be shed to renew it.
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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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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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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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 lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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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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