Augustus Hare Quotes

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

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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.

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

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

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

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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

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

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

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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

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

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The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

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Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

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

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

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Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

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

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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.

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

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

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Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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