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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

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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Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
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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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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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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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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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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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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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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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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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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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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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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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When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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