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

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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Augustus William Hare

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The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Augustus William Hare

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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

Augustus William Hare

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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Augustus William Hare

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A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

Augustus William Hare

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Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Augustus William Hare

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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.

Augustus William Hare

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A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.

Augustus William Hare

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

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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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Seeking is not always the way to find.

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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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How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

Augustus William Hare

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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

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

Augustus William Hare

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

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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

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