Augustus Hare
Augustus Hare
Augustus John Cuthbert Harewas an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 March 1834
beef eating pity
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
travel church half
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.
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
inspirational reading book
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.
christian fear dying
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
humble hypocrite heart
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
potatoes irishmen
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
christian gentleman christianity
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
eye moon deny
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
beautiful country wish
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.
men evil neighbor
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.
witty truth all-things
Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
thinking voice may
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.
mother tired boys
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.