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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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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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The body too has its rights and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.
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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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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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Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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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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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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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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There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
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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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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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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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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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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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