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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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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Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.
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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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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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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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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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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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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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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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