Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. — Augustus Hare Ambitious Copy Share Image
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. — Augustus Hare Adam Copy Share Image
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. — Augustus Hare Confidence Copy Share Image
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances. — Augustus Hare Circumstances Copy Share Image
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. — Augustus Hare Earth Copy Share Image
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. — Augustus Hare Inspirational Copy Share Image
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. — Augustus Hare Christian Copy Share Image
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as… — Augustus Hare Generality Copy Share Image
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them. — Augustus Hare Circumstances Copy Share Image
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. — Augustus Hare Humble Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its… — Augustus Hare Body Copy Share Image
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full. — Augustus Hare Deny Copy Share Image
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet. — Augustus Hare Believe Copy Share Image
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of… — Augustus Hare Child Copy Share Image
Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright… — Augustus Hare Black Copy Share Image
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that… — Augustus Hare Children Copy Share Image
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on… — Augustus Hare Children Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place,… — Augustus Hare Asks Copy Share Image
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in… — Augustus Hare All things Copy Share Image
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. — Augustus Hare Evil Copy Share Image
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. — Augustus Hare All things Copy Share Image
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. — Augustus Hare Character Copy Share Image
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that… — Augustus Hare Atheism Copy Share Image
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian. — Augustus Hare Almighty Copy Share Image
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. — Augustus Hare Courage Copy Share Image
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head. — Augustus Hare Greatness Copy Share Image
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. — Augustus Hare Character Copy Share Image
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. — Augustus Hare Crimes Copy Share Image
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins… — Augustus Hare Firm Copy Share Image
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of… — Augustus Hare Action Copy Share Image
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. — Augustus Hare Ability Copy Share Image
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow… — Augustus Hare Examples Copy Share Image
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to… — Augustus Hare Born Copy Share Image
Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein… — Augustus Hare Angel Copy Share Image
Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see… — Augustus Hare Art of life Copy Share Image
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good;… — Augustus Hare All things Copy Share Image
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them… — Augustus Hare Difficulty Copy Share Image
