Augustus William Hare Quotes

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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
Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

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

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

Augustus William Hare
The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

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

Augustus William Hare
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

Augustus William Hare
Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

Augustus William Hare
They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

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

Augustus William Hare
The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.

Augustus William Hare
The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it...

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

Augustus William Hare
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

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

Augustus William Hare
Science sees signs; Poetry the thing signified.

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

Augustus William Hare
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.

Augustus William 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