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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Flower, Garden, Smell

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.199

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• When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Rocks, History, Littles

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

  Augustus William Hare

  Success, Eye, Men

  Augustus William Hare (1836). “Sermons to a country congregation”, p.451

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• There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

  Augustus William Hare

  Men, Opinion, Possession

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Writing, Mind, Ink

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

  Augustus William Hare

  Running, Men, Quality

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1851). “Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers: First Series”, p.342

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• I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

  Augustus William Hare

  Men, Feels

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.215

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Pride, Giving, Tolerance

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.475

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Dream, Believe, Eye

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• The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Future, Heart, Eye

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• Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, Spiritual, Heart

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Recovery, Men, Looks

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.186

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Faith, Believe, Bounds

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.284

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Poetry, Done, Poet

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.271

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• The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.

  Augustus William Hare

  Dresses, Tasks, May

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• Every wise man lives in an observatory.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Men, Dust, Progress

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.156

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Doors, Heaven, Cobwebs

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.200

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Men, Perfect, Noon

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.10

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Art, Inspiration, Men

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.280

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Book, Mean, Men

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.271

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• Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

  Augustus William Hare

  Children, Self, Facts

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.161

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Lonely, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wisdom, World, Consulting

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.254

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• Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

  Augustus William Hare

  Men, Shadow, Gazing

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.238

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