Augustus William Hare

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

— Augustus William Hare

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

— Augustus William Hare

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

— Augustus William Hare

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

— Augustus William Hare

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

— Augustus William Hare

Seeking is not always the way to find.

— Augustus William Hare

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

— Augustus William Hare

Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.

— Augustus William Hare

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

— Augustus William Hare

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

— Augustus William Hare

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

— Augustus William Hare

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

— Augustus William Hare

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

— Augustus William Hare

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

— Augustus William Hare

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

— Augustus William Hare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear.…

— Augustus William Hare

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

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

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

— Augustus William Hare

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.

— Augustus William Hare

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

— Augustus William Hare

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

— Augustus William Hare

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

— Augustus William Hare

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?

— Augustus William Hare

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

— Augustus William Hare

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

— Augustus William Hare

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

— Augustus William Hare

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

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