The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. — Augustus William Hare Education Copy Share Image
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. — Augustus William Hare Effort Copy Share Image
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon. — Augustus William Hare Confidence Copy Share Image
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody. — Augustus William Hare Discipline and self control Copy Share Image
How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance.… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense,… — Augustus William Hare Ceremony Copy Share Image
Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot… — Augustus William Hare Bird Copy Share Image
Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself. — Augustus William Hare Greatness Copy Share Image
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology. — Augustus William Hare Ancient Copy Share Image
Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure. — Augustus William Hare Action Copy Share Image
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable. — Augustus William Hare Boundless Copy Share Image
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's… — Augustus William Hare Differences Copy Share Image
I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare. — Augustus William Hare Brother Copy Share Image
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to… — Augustus William Hare Body Copy Share Image
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered. — Augustus William Hare Answered prayers Copy Share Image
How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off… — Augustus William Hare Creation Copy Share Image
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. — Augustus William Hare Anxiety Copy Share Image
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing. — Augustus William Hare Evil Copy Share Image
Some people would have us love, or rather obey God, chiefly because he outbids the devil. — Augustus William Hare Devil Copy Share Image
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil,… — Augustus William Hare Authority Copy Share Image
