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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 mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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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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If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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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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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
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Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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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.
Augustus William Hare
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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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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I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker for it was not on the door of heaven.
Augustus William Hare
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
Augustus William Hare
