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

Augustus William Hare

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Augustus William Hare
Age: 41 †
Born: 1792
Born: November 17
Died: 1834
Died: January 22
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It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.
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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.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.
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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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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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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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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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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.
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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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