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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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• 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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• Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Christianity

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Men, Rights, Soul

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.300

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• Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

  Augustus William Hare

  Friendship, Laughing, Thorough

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.255

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Book, Men, Hieroglyphics

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• Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.

  Augustus William Hare

  Done, Former

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.360

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• Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

  Augustus William Hare

  Two, Action, Source

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.30

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• Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.

  Augustus William Hare

  Moon, Light, Two

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.301

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• The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

  Augustus William Hare

  Liars, Lying, Mischievous

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.160

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Differences, Temptation, World

  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.258

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• Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Advice, Faces, Wry

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

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• Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

  Augustus William Hare

  Fashion, History, Meat

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.270

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Freedom, Names, Law

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.38

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• In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

  Augustus William Hare

  Inspirational, Valleys, Height

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.185

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• Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

  Augustus William Hare

  Order, Justice, Spirit

  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.253

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• When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Evil, Hearing, Refrain

  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.255

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• Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Poetry, Week

  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.14

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• The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

  Augustus William Hare

  Poetry, Looks, Poet

  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.278

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Brother, Philosophy, Science

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Moving, Heart

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• Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified.
  Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

  Augustus William Hare

  Brother, Science, Hares

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Character, Blood, History

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

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• Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Levels, Raises

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.295

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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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Mind, Body, May

  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.223

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