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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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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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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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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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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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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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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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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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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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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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