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. Augustus Hare More Quotes by Augustus Hare More Quotes From Augustus Hare Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. Augustus Hare positive inspirational life 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? Augustus Hare powerful children son The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. Augustus Hare glasses wisdom wise 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. Augustus Hare working-together heart people Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them. Augustus Hare circumstances men religion Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. Augustus Hare excellent example people The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience. Augustus Hare good-christian paganism christianity Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things. Augustus Hare truth all-things witty 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. Augustus Hare atheism mind wings To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. Augustus Hare adam paradise home 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. Augustus Hare mother giving children 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. Augustus Hare prejudice evil loss 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. Augustus Hare mothers-day inspiring baby Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. Augustus Hare ambitious It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet. Augustus Hare flower sweet believe Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. Augustus Hare too-much vices littles What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. Augustus Hare hypocrite humble heart The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. Augustus Hare shining faith character Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. Augustus Hare confidence-in-others no-confidence A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. Augustus Hare neighbor evil men
