Augustus Hare
Augustus Hare
Augustus John Cuthbert Harewas an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 March 1834
potatoes irishmen
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
christian gentleman christianity
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
wings mind atheism
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.
ambitious
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
sweet believe flower
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
vices littles too-much
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
horse public-opinion holding-on
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.
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.
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.