Julius Charles Hare Quotes

• Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Inspiration

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486

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• A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Adversity, Mind, Prosperity

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.211

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• Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

  Julius Charles Hare

  Children, Light, People

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• Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Psychology, Actors, Theater

  "Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: Second edition: with large additions. Second Series".

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• Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Wisdom, Parent, Intelligence

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.103

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• The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Next, Very Good, Best Things

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.162

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• To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

  Julius Charles Hare

  People, Serious, Kind

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.158

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• Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Mean, Sight, Hands

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.475

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• The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Philosophy, Human Nature, Humans

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.434

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• Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Greatness, People, Facts

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• The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

  Julius Charles Hare

  White, Black, Mind

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1848). “Guesses at Truth: Second Series”, p.214

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• If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

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  Philosophy, Able, Philosopher

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.502

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• What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Running, Husband, Together

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.210

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• By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Brave, Purity, Virtue

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.180

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• True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Eye, Shining, Heaven

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.444

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• The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Christianity, Virtue, Obedience

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.13

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