Character Quote by Augustus Hare

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

— Augustus Hare

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept…

— Augustus Hare

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

— Augustus Hare

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children…

— Augustus Hare

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

— Augustus Hare

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do…

— Augustus Hare

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

— Augustus Hare

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are…

— Augustus Hare

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

— Augustus Hare

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

— Augustus Hare

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

— Augustus Hare

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

— Augustus Hare