Augustus Hare Quotes
"The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Strength, Virtue, Christianity, Obedience)
"Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: People, Difficulty)
"The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Heaven, Intellect, Light)
"The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Faith, Power, Character, Will)
"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Men, Act)
"There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Atheism, Being, Mind, Proof)
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Thought, Knowledge, Mankind, Wind)
"To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Home, Paradise)
"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Sound, Talk, Words)
"Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Earth, Heaven, Nothing)
"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Horses, Opinion, Public, Public opinion)
"What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Character, Information)
"Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Day, May, Nothing, World)
"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Being, Saying)
"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Love, Men, God, Children, Parents, Sons)
"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Flowers)
"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Life, Babies, Conceit, Importance, Intellect, Mothers)
"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Evil, Gain, Loss, Proof)
"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Mother, Nonsense, Old, Talking)
"Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: People, Will)
"As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure."
- Augustus Hare
"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Mother, Enthusiasm, Actions, Children, May, Support, World)
"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Evil, Man)
"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Vices)