How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. Augustus William Hare More Quotes by Augustus William Hare More Quotes From Augustus William Hare Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body. Augustus William Hare body mind may When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart. Augustus William Hare heart philosophy moving To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it. Augustus William Hare climbs mountain philosophy Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? Augustus William Hare critics Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. Augustus William Hare coal pits self Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Artifice is the work of mere man, in the imbecility of his mimic understanding. Augustus William Hare inspiration men art It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. Augustus William Hare tired mother baby Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order. Augustus William Hare spirit justice order The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it. Augustus William Hare future eye heart Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure. Augustus William Hare source action two Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. Augustus William Hare light moon two