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 Copy Share Image
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. — Augustus William Hare Effort Copy Share Image
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. — Augustus William Hare 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
I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon. — Augustus William Hare Confidence 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 Copy Share Image
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. — Augustus William Hare Inspirational 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
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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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
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
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias. — Augustus William Hare Aliases Copy Share Image
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare 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
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. — Augustus William Hare Anxiety Copy Share Image
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing. — Augustus William Hare Evil 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
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
How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it… — Augustus William Hare 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
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
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. — Augustus William Hare 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 Copy Share Image
Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure. — Augustus William Hare Action 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
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven. — Augustus William Hare 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
Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare. — Augustus William Hare Brother Copy Share Image
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. — Augustus William Hare 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 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
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