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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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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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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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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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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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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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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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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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What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!
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