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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.
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 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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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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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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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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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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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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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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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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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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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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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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