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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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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.
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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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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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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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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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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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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.
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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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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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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.
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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.
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We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
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