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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

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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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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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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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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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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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 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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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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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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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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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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