"Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit." — Augustus William Hare

"Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit."

— Augustus William Hare

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67 Quotes by Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was…
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of…
The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to…
In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but…
Seeking is not always the way to find.
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in…
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above…
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to…
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a…

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This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored… — Edwin Arlington Robinson
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too. — Laurence J. Peter
Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in… — Martin Gardner
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen… — Toni Morrison
The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen. — Tim McCarver
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man… — Woodrow Wilson
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality… — Frederick Lenz
It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd… — Frank McCourt

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