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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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