Augustus William Hare Quotes

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• Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

  Augustus William Hare

  Life, Matter, Spirit

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Mind, Next, Trunks

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.298

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• Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

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  Names, Curiosity, Littles

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.44

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• The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

  Augustus William Hare

  Feelings, Opinion, Emotion

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.183

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• The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Friday, Men, Holy Days

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• How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.

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  Real, Want, Easy

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.477

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• In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

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  Individuality, Peer Pressure, Life Is

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

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  Wise, People, Wise Words

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Seeking is not always the way to find.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophical, Way, Seeking

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Mountain, Climbs

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• True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

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  Ignorance, Doe, Merit

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.6

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• Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

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  Motivational, Self Control, Might

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

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  Hurt, Light, Passing Away

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

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  Prayer, Heart, Rooted

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1851). “Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers: First Series”, p.297

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• One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

  Augustus William Hare

  Pain, Effort, Trouble

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, Heart, Anchors

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

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  God, World, Certain

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.169

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• I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

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  Motivational, Self, Enemy

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• How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

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  Philosophy, Hands, People

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

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  Love, Passionate, Youth

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.255

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• When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders.

  Augustus William Hare

  Moon, Clouds, Darkness

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• A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.

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  Beautiful, Distance, Sight

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.8

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• If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

  Augustus William Hare

  Leadership, Giving, Wish

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

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  Motivational, Real, Fall

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.180

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• The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

  Augustus William Hare

  Teaching, Use, May

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.491

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