Augustus Hare
Augustus Hare
Augustus John Cuthbert Harewas an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 March 1834
vices littles too-much
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
loss evil prejudice
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.
mother children giving
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.
home paradise adam
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
wings mind atheism
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.
men thinking principles
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.
ambitious
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
sweet believe flower
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
heart people together
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.
men religion circumstances
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
wise wisdom glasses
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
powerful children son
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?
inspirational life positive
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.