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Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.
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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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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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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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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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 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 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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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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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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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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