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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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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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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 difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.
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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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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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Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.
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