Augustus Hare Quotes
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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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Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
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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.
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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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Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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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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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.
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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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Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
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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.
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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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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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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.
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The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
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Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
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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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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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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
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Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
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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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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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A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.
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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
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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.
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What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
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Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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