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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.
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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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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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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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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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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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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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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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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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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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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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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.
Augustus William Hare
Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
Augustus William Hare
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
Augustus William Hare
How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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