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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

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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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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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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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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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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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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 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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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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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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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 mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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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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