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Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Artifice is the work of mere man, in the imbecility of his mimic understanding.
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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
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The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
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Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.
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Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.
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It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.
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What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.
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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.
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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.
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Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.
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True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
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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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When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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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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Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
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The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.
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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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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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Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law....
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Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Augustus William Hare
Born:
November 17, 1792
Died:
January 22, 1834
(aged 41)
Bio:
Augustus William Hare was the son of Francis Hare-Naylor. He was the author of a history of Germany.
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