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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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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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I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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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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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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