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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

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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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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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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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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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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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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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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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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.
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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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