Augustus William Hare Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

  Augustus William Hare

  Leadership, Giving, Wish

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

• The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Future, Heart, Eye

• It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.

  Augustus William Hare

  Illustration, Giving, Speech

• They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

  Augustus William Hare

  Pride, Giving, Tolerance

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.475

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