Augustus Hare Quotes

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• Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of…
• The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
• Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
• Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
• Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
• Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for…
• The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not…
• Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
• The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
• What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
• Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for…
• The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
• Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both…
• The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
• A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
• Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
• Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
• Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
• Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

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