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
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
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 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
Some people would have us love, or rather obey God, chiefly because he outbids the devil. — 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 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 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 carry off… — 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 on physical… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. — 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 subtlety that… — Augustus William Hare 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 their infants,… — 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, and start… — Augustus William Hare 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 not at… — Augustus William Hare 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
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
The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the… — 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 the work… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
