Author: Augustus Hare

Quotes

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.

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.

- Augustus Hare

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

- Augustus Hare

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

- Augustus Hare

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

- Augustus Hare

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

- Augustus Hare

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

- Augustus Hare

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

- Augustus Hare

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

- Augustus Hare

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