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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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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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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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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 mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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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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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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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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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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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