It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. — Augustus William Hare Affluence Copy Share Image
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. — Augustus William Hare Philosophy Copy Share Image
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. — Augustus William Hare Freethinker Copy Share Image
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? — Augustus William Hare Critics Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. — Augustus William Hare Christianity Copy Share Image
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare Doe Copy Share Image
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by… — Augustus William Hare Affliction Copy Share Image
We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness. — Augustus William Hare Healing Copy Share Image
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. — Augustus William Hare Inspirational Copy Share Image
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give… — Augustus William Hare Beaten Copy Share Image
A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no… — Augustus William Hare Believe Copy Share Image
Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love… — Augustus William Hare Friendship Copy Share Image
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. — Augustus William Hare Ifs Copy Share Image
The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to… — Augustus William Hare Best friend Copy Share Image
What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching… — Augustus William Hare Cases Copy Share Image
The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little… — Augustus William Hare Cases Copy Share Image
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that… — Augustus William Hare Conquer Copy Share Image
Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend… — Augustus William Hare Augustus Copy Share Image
Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot… — Augustus William Hare Bird Copy Share Image
Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense,… — Augustus William Hare Ceremony Copy Share Image
Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become… — Augustus William Hare Dazzle Copy Share Image
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he… — Augustus William Hare Accord Copy Share Image
When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does… — Augustus William Hare Acquire Copy Share Image
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not… — Augustus William Hare Deny Copy Share Image
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. — Augustus William Hare Deeper Copy Share Image
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody. — Augustus William Hare Discipline and self control Copy Share Image
How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. — Augustus William Hare Certain Copy Share Image
Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind… — Augustus William Hare Behinds Copy Share Image
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. — Augustus William Hare Ifs Copy Share Image
Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead. — Augustus William Hare Consulting Copy Share Image
Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure. — Augustus William Hare Action Copy Share Image
When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. — Augustus William Hare Barren Copy Share Image
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. — Augustus William Hare Firsts Copy Share Image
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's… — Augustus William Hare Differences Copy Share Image
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to… — Augustus William Hare Body Copy Share Image
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large… — Augustus William Hare Ink Copy Share Image
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. — Augustus William Hare Dazzle Copy Share Image
