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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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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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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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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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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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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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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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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away so more blood must be shed to renew it.
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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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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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