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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 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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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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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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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains much trouble, by taking trouble.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
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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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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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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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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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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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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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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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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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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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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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