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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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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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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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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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.
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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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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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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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