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
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
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. — Augustus William Hare Deeper Copy Share Image
It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own… — Augustus William Hare Application 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 William Hare Baby Copy Share Image
Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe,… — Augustus William Hare Enough 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
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. — Augustus William Hare Dazzle Copy Share Image
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. — 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
Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is… — Augustus William Hare Art 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
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 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
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are… — Augustus William Hare Facts Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. — Augustus William Hare Christianity 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
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach… — Augustus William Hare Book Copy Share Image
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance.… — Augustus William Hare Borrowed 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
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
When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does… — Augustus William Hare Doe 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
