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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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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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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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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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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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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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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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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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