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
How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered. — Augustus William Hare Answered prayers Copy Share Image
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing. — Augustus William Hare Evil Copy Share Image
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. — Augustus William Hare Anxiety Copy Share Image
Some people would have us love, or rather obey God, chiefly because he outbids the devil. — Augustus William Hare Devil Copy Share Image
Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get… — Augustus William Hare Cases Copy Share Image
...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the… — Augustus William Hare Activity 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 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
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
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit… — Augustus William Hare Assimilation Copy Share Image
If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while… — Augustus William Hare Body 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
They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus… — Augustus William Hare Boast Copy Share Image
Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ… — Augustus William Hare Anchors 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
To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it. — Augustus William Hare Climbs Copy Share Image
I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon. — Augustus William Hare Confidence Copy Share Image
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. — Augustus William Hare Effort Copy Share Image
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. — Augustus William Hare Height Copy Share Image
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. — Augustus William Hare Curiosity Copy Share Image
Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare. — Augustus William Hare Brother Copy Share Image
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias. — Augustus William Hare Aliases Copy Share Image
Were the purportings of the Bible to be a revelation false, it would still be the truest book that was ever written. — Augustus William Hare Bible Copy Share Image
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it:… — Augustus William Hare Book Copy Share Image
The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. — Augustus William Hare Education Copy Share Image
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so… — Augustus William Hare Clearness Copy Share Image
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? — Augustus William Hare Faculty Copy Share Image
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself. — Augustus William Hare Greatness Copy Share Image
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology. — Augustus William Hare Ancient Copy Share Image
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made… — Augustus William Hare Deny Copy Share Image
In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning… — Augustus William Hare Brother Copy Share Image
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest… — Augustus William Hare Cooks Copy Share Image
What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace,… — Augustus William Hare Blessed 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
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