Augustus William Hare Quotes

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• Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
• Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
• When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
• What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children…
• Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the…
• The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood…
• When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.
• In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.
• The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that…
• Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element…
• Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
• When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it…
• How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
• A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
• Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
• Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
• The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
• True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
• What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye…
• Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

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