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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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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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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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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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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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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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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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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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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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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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