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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
— Augustus William Hare
Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.
— Augustus William Hare
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
— Augustus William Hare
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
— Augustus Hare
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
— Augustus Hare
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.
— Augustus William Hare
The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.
— Augustus William Hare
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
— Augustus Hare
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
— Augustus William Hare
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.
— Augustus William Hare
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
— Augustus William Hare
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.
— Augustus William Hare
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
— Augustus William Hare
Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,by consulting the oracular dead. — Augustus William Hare
Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
— Augustus William Hare
Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
— Augustus William Hare
How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.
— Augustus William Hare
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
— Augustus William Hare
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
— Augustus William Hare
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.
— Augustus William Hare
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
— Augustus William Hare
Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,one pure, the other impure. — Augustus William Hare
How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
— Augustus William Hare
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.
— Augustus William Hare
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
— Augustus William Hare
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.
— Augustus William Hare
It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.
— Augustus William Hare
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
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
— Augustus Hare
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
— Augustus William Hare
A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.
— Augustus William Hare
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.
— Augustus William Hare
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
— Augustus Hare
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To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.
— Augustus William Hare
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
— Augustus William Hare
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
— Augustus Hare
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
— Augustus William Hare
We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
— Augustus William Hare
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.
— Augustus William Hare
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.
— Augustus William Hare
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
— Augustus Hare
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
— Augustus Hare
Seeking is not always the way to find.
— Augustus William Hare
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
— Augustus Hare
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.
— Augustus William Hare
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
— Augustus Hare
Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
— Augustus William Hare
Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.
— Augustus William Hare
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
— Augustus William Hare
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.
— Augustus William Hare
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.
— Augustus William Hare
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
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.
— Augustus William Hare
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?
— Augustus William Hare
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
— Augustus Hare
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.
— Augustus William Hare
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
— Augustus William Hare
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
— Augustus Hare
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.
— Augustus William Hare
Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified.Co-author with his brother Julius Hare. — Augustus William Hare
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
— Augustus William Hare
Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
— Augustus Hare
I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.
— Augustus William Hare
I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
— Augustus William Hare
Every wise man lives in an observatory.
— Augustus William Hare
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
I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
— Augustus William Hare
How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
— Augustus William Hare
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
— Augustus Hare
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
Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
— Augustus William Hare
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
— Augustus Hare
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
— Augustus William Hare
