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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

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

How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,
by consulting the oracular dead.

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

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.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,
one pure, the other impure.

How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.

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.

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified.
Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.