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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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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.
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We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
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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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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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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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A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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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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When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders.
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There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.
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In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
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Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?
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Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.
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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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