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 Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. Augustus Hare earth heaven Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. Augustus Hare tired mother boys What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. Augustus Hare information praise character Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action. Augustus Hare voice may thinking A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them. Augustus Hare public-opinion holding-on horse Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated. Augustus Hare angel spiritual men Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full. Augustus Hare deny eye moon A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian. Augustus Hare gentleman christianity christian Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. Augustus Hare neighbor evil men Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head. Augustus Hare irishmen potatoes The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road. Augustus Hare wish beautiful country Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Augustus Hare have-courage enough courage The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. Augustus Hare dying christian fear Pity is like eating mustard without beef. Augustus Hare pity beef eating The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare humility inspirational men Friendship is love without its flowers or veil. Augustus Hare real-friends flower real Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections. Augustus Hare church nature travel Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming. Augustus Hare good-day black clouds Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch. Augustus Hare reading inspirational book Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Augustus Hare
