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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
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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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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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