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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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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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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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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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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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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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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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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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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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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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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
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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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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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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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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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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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