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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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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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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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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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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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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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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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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