Top 41 Quotes & Sayings by Augustus Hare
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Last updated on November 3, 2024.
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.
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.
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
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.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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.
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.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
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.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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.
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?
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.
The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.
Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.
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