Augustus Hare Quotes

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• Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• 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?

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  Children, Powerful, Son

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• The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Glasses

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• Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

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  Witty, Truth, All Things

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• Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

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  Courage, Enough, Have Courage

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• 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.

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  Wings, Mind, Atheism

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• The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

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  Paganism, Good Christian, Christianity

  "Guesses at Truth" by Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, London: Macmillan, (p. 1), 1867.

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• A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

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  Men, Evil, Neighbor

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• Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

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  Vices, Littles, Too Much

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• Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

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  Potatoes, Irishmen

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• The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

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  Inspirational, Humility, Men

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• Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

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  Men, Religion, Circumstances

  "Guesses at Truth". Book by Augustus William Hare, 1827.

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Country, Wish

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• Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

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  No Confidence, Confidence In Others

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• 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.

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  Heart, People, Working Together

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• Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

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  Heaven, Earth

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• Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

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  Ambitious

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• Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

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  Eye, Moon, Deny

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• 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.

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  Horse, Public Opinion, Holding On

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• To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

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  Home, Paradise, Adam

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• What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

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  Character, Information, Praise

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• Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

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  People, Example, Excellent

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• Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

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  Mother, Tired, Boys

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• 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.

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  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baby

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