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

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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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.
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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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.
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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.
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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius 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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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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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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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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What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!
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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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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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