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Augustus Inspirational Quotes (152)

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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.
Augustus Hare
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Augustus Hare
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
Augustus William Hare
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The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.
Augustus William Hare
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Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
Augustus Hare
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I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties.
Augustus Washington
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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.
Augustus Hare
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Awards, they come and go. The main thing is it's all about team.
Seimone Augustus
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Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.
Augustus William Hare
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
Augustus William Hare
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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
Augustus
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A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
Augustus John
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Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?
George Augustus Henry Sala
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I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
Augustus
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
Augustus
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
Augustus William Hare
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It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.
Augustus William Hare
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The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
Augustus De Morgan
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much vices almost always too little.
Augustus Hare
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Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
Augustus De Morgan
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Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.
George Augustus Henry Sala
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What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!
Augustus William Hare
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It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.
George Augustus Henry Sala
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The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.
George Augustus Henry Sala
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