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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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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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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 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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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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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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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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Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.
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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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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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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 could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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