Augustus William Hare Quotes

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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
I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.

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
Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

Augustus William Hare
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

Augustus William Hare
In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

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
When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders.

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

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

Augustus William Hare
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

Augustus William Hare
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

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

Augustus William Hare
Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

Augustus William Hare