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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.
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 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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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 like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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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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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.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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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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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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