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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.

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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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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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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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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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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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