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Inspirational Quotes by Augustus William Hare
- Seeking is not always the way to find.
- Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
- There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
- Every wise man lives in an observatory.
- In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.
- Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
- 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.
- The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
- A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
- Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.
- Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
- People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
- Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
- To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.
- Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?
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