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> [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 might be made to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/life-may-be-defined-to-be-the-power-of-self-augmentation-or/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

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## More by Augustus William Hare

> [Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/do-and-have-done-the-former-is-far-the-easiest/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/temporary-madness-may-be-necessary-in-some-cases-to-cleanse-and/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/christianity-has-carried-civilization-along-with-it-whithersoever-it/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/the-feeling-is-often-the-deeper-truth-the-opinion-the-more/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/it-is-said-that-windham-when-he-came-to-the-end-of-a-speech-often/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/it-is-well-for-us-that-we-are-born-babies-in-intellect-could-we/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/some-persons-take-reproof-good-humoredly-enough-unless-you-are-so/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/when-the-moon-after-covering-herself-with-darkness-as-in-sorrow-at/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/there-is-a-glare-about-worldly-success-which-is-very-apt-to-dazzle/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/philosophy-cannot-raise-the-commonalty-up-to-her-level-so-if-she-is/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/the-body-too-has-its-rights-and-it-will-have-them-they-cannot-be/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/nature-is-mighty-art-is-mighty-artifice-is-weak-for-nature-is-the/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/they-who-disbelieve-in-virtue-because-man-has-never-been-found/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/we-look-to-our-last-sickness-for-repentance-unmindful-that-it-is/)

[Augustus William Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-william-hare/)

> [The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-william-hare/the-mind-is-like-a-trunk-if-well-packed-it-holds-almost-every-thing/)

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