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Augustus Hare quotes: Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.

Augustus Hare quotes: It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Augustus Hare quotes: A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

Augustus Hare quotes: Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Augustus Hare quotes: Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Augustus Hare quotes: A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

Augustus Hare quotes: What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Augustus Hare quotes: Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Augustus Hare quotes: The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

Augustus Hare quotes: Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Augustus Hare quotes: The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Augustus Hare quotes: Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Augustus Hare quotes: The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Augustus Hare quotes: As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Augustus Hare quotes: Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Augustus Hare quotes: What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Augustus Hare quotes: There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Augustus Hare quotes: A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Augustus Hare quotes: The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Augustus Hare quotes: Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Augustus Hare quotes: Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Augustus Hare quotes: Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Augustus Hare quotes: Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Augustus Hare quotes: Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Augustus Hare quotes: Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

Augustus Hare quotes: Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

Augustus Hare quotes: Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Augustus Hare quotes: To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Augustus Hare quotes: Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.