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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.
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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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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