...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe,… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit… — Augustus William Hare Assimilation Copy Share Image
If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while… — Augustus William Hare Body Copy Share Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach… — Augustus William Hare Book Copy Share Image
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are… — Augustus William Hare Facts Copy Share Image
They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus… — Augustus William Hare Boast Copy Share Image
Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is… — Augustus William Hare Art Copy Share Image
The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than… — Augustus William Hare Christ on the cross Copy Share Image
The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away;… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts… — Augustus William Hare Adversity Copy Share Image
