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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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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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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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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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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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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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Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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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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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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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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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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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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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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