All Augustus William Hare Quotes
- ...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of… Activity
- A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. Brief
- The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? Faculty
- There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. Difference
- If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies… Anne
- Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. Become Popular
- Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. Any
- It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. Affluence
- Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily… Always Full
- Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot. Blotting
- People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. Cannot Go
- Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be… Anchor
- Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. Affliction
- Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part… Changeable
- How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. Anything Else
- One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. Effort
- Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it. Advice
- I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing… Any
- Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the… Body
- When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is… Alter