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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

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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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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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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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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 mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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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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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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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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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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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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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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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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