It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. — Augustus William Hare Affluence Copy Share Image
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. — Augustus William Hare Philosophy Copy Share Image
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. — Augustus William Hare Freethinker Copy Share Image
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. — Augustus William Hare Curiosity Copy Share Image
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias. — Augustus William Hare Aliases Copy Share Image
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by… — Augustus William Hare Affliction Copy Share Image
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Were the purportings of the Bible to be a revelation false, it would still be the truest book that was ever written. — Augustus William Hare Bible Copy Share Image
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. — Augustus William Hare Inspirational Copy Share Image
We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness. — Augustus William Hare Healing Copy Share Image
Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love… — Augustus William Hare Friend Copy Share Image
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning… — Augustus William Hare Brother Copy Share Image
The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to… — Augustus William Hare Best friend Copy Share Image
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it:… — Augustus William Hare Book Copy Share Image
The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace,… — Augustus William Hare Blessed Copy Share Image
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to… — Augustus William Hare Baby Copy Share Image
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
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.… — Augustus William Hare Argument Copy Share Image
When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous. — Augustus William Hare Love Copy Share Image
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. — Augustus William Hare Flower Copy Share Image
I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. — Augustus William Hare Election Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. — Augustus William Hare Christianity Copy Share Image
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. — Augustus William Hare Inspirational Copy Share Image
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image