Augustus Hare
Augustus Hare
Augustus John Cuthbert Harewas an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 March 1834
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.
men evil neighbor
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
no-confidence confidence-in-others
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
men thinking principles
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.
inspirational life positive
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
powerful children son
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
wise wisdom glasses
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
heart people together
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
men religion circumstances
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
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.