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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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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
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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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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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The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.
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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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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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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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