"How often one sees people looking far and……" — Augustus William Hare
"How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment."
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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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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all…
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