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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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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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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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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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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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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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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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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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 difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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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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