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

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Augustus William Hare
Age: 41 †
Born: 1792
Born: November 17
Died: 1834
Died: January 22
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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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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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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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 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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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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