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
Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure. — Augustus William Hare Action Copy Share Image
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing. — Augustus William Hare Evil 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
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
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
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
Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead. — Augustus William Hare Consulting Copy Share Image
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. — Augustus William Hare Anxiety 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
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
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
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
It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. — Augustus William Hare Affluence 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
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. — Augustus William Hare Freethinker 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
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? — Augustus William Hare Critics 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
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
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
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
