Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. — Augustus William Hare Philosophy 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. — Augustus William Hare Inspirational Copy Share Image
How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable. — Augustus William Hare Boundless Copy Share Image
Some people would have us love, or rather obey God, chiefly because he outbids the devil. — Augustus William Hare Religion 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
The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away;… — Augustus William Hare Blood Copy Share Image
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil,… — Augustus William Hare Authority Copy Share Image
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off… — Augustus William Hare Creation Copy Share Image
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. — Augustus William Hare Effort Copy Share Image
A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous. — Augustus William Hare Love Copy Share Image
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself. — Augustus William Hare Inspirational 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
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. — Augustus William Hare Height 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
To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it. — Augustus William Hare Climbs 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
I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. — Augustus William Hare Election Copy Share Image