"Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can……" — Augustus William Hare
"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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Augustus William Hare
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67 Quotes by Augustus William Hare
Augustus William Hare has 67 quotes on this site.
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The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was…
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
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I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of…
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The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to…
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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…
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in…
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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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I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above…
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We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to…
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He…
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Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin…
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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile…
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Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
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This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a…
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Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to…
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It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having…
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and…
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I always have mini bottles of Unbreakable, the fragrance I did with my husband. I'm Armenian, so I'm oily and…
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As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
— Will Self
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Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes…
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