Beaten Quote by Augustus William Hare

Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.

— Augustus William Hare

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

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

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

— Augustus William Hare

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

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

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

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

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

— Augustus William Hare

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

— Augustus William Hare

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

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