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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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Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.
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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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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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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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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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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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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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 lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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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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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
Augustus William Hare
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
Augustus William Hare
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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