Quotes by Augustus Hare - Page 1

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.
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Religion
Men
Circumstances
Creatures
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Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
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Beef
Eating
Pity
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Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
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Flower
Real
Real Friends
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Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
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Truth
All Things
Witty
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Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
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Irishmen
Potatoes
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The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
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Fear
Christian
Dying
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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Inspirational
Journey
Knowledge
Life
Positive
Mankind
Sail
Vessel
Wind
Thought
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Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
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Confidence In Others
No Confidence
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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
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Inspirational
Men
Humility
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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Littles
Shock
Too Much
Vices
Crimes
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Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
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Courage
Smile
Enough
Have Courage
Persons
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Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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Grand
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The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
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Christianity
Good Christian
Paganism
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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
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Christianity
Obedience
Paganism
Virtue
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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
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Home
Adam
Descendants
Paradise
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As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
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All Things
Pure
Impure
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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Nature
Earth
Heaven
Farther
Nearer
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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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Intelligence
Wisdom
Wise
Glasses
Heaven
Intellect
Light
Admit
Glass
Reflects
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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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Faith
Character
Shining
Weak
Naturally
Often
Forth
Shine
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A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
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Men
Evil
Neighbor
Prone
Mostly
Sees
Suspect
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Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
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Deny
Eye
Moon
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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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Boys
Mother
Nonsense
Tired
Old Enough
Whose
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It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
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Believe
Flower
Moral
Poisonous
Sweet
Bright
Flowers
Qualities
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What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
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Heart
Humble
Hypocrite
Hearts
Hypocrites
Whenever
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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
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Example
Excellent
Modest
People
Vain
Examples
Indeed
None
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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Character
Information
Praise
Condemns
Standard
Praises
Surer
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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.
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Inspirational
Book
Reading
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A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.
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Christian
Christianity
Gentleman
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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.
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May
Silent
Thinking
Voice
Spoken
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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.
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Men
Impulse
Principles
Thinking
Good Men Bad
Apt
Generality
Neither
Principle
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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.
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Firm
Holding On
Horse
Opinion
Public Opinion
Reins
Doubtless
Follow
Follows
Hold
Guiding
Horses
Statesman
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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.
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Atheism
Exhausted
Mind
Proof
Receiver
Wings
Clearest
Element
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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.
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Difficulty
Heart
People
Working Together
Actively
Apart
Carry
Together People Working Together
Heads
Hearts
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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.
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Black
Clouds
Good Day
Lightning
Good World Black
Bright
Bursts
Cloud
Good May World
Dart
Forth
Prepare
Sends
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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.
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All Things
Bias
Evil
Harder
Loss
Prejudice
Proof
Gain
Quicker
Rid
Slower
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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.
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Beautiful
Country
Wish
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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.
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Children
Enthusiasm
Giving
Mixing
Mother
Actions
Great World Lose
Fated
Prompt
Remain
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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Inspiring
Baby
Conceit
Filled
Half
Importance
Intellect
Mothers Day
Babies
Infants
Mothers
Render
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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.
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Men
Evil
Neighbor
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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.
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Men
Angel
Spiritual
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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?
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Children
Powerful
Said
Son
Love God Men
Among
Loved
Downward
Far
Flows
Parents
Manifested
Sons
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Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.
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Nature
Travel
Church
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