"How few are our real wants! and how……" — Augustus William Hare
"How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable."
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Augustus William Hare
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67 Quotes by Augustus William Hare
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The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was…
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
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I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of…
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The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to…
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In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but…
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in…
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Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
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I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above…
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We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to…
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Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.
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It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith…
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God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are…
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If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously…
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The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that…
— John Garrett
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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
— Thomas Huxley
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
— Claude Debussy
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Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific…
— George Whitefield
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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had…
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