Augustus Hare Quotes
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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.
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.
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.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.
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.
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.
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.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.
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.
The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
