Augustus Hare
Augustus Hare
Augustus John Cuthbert Harewas an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 March 1834
character information praise
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
courage enough have-courage
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
paganism good-christian christianity
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
witty truth all-things
Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
christian fear dying
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
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.
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.
spiritual angel men
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.
heaven earth
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
eye moon deny
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
faith character shining
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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.
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.
beef eating pity
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.