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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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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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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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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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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Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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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 youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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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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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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 poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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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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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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