Augustus Hare
Augustus Hare
Augustus John Cuthbert Harewas an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 March 1834
christian fear dying
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
beef eating pity
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
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.
potatoes irishmen
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
christian gentleman christianity
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
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.
people example excellent
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
heaven earth
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
men evil neighbor
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.