Augustus Hare Quotes.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
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.
The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
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.
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.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
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.
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?
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.
