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 Copy Share Image
The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than… — Augustus William Hare Christ on the cross Copy Share Image
The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts… — Augustus William Hare Adversity 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
