List of Augustus Hare Quotes

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Augustus Hare
Total Quotes 40
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.
Mother Children Giving
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
Ambitious
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, i believe, never the sweet.
Sweet Believe Flower
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.
Loss Evil Prejudice
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
Beef Eating Pity
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.
Thinking Voice May
The ancients dreaded death: the christian can only fear dying.
Christian Fear Dying
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.
Men Thinking Principles
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
Heart Humble Hypocrite
A christian is god almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the devil's christian.
Christian Gentleman Christianity
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.
Men Evil Neighbor
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
Eye Moon Deny
  • Born: March 13, 1834
  • Died: January 22, 1903
  • Occupation: Writer
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