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Augustus Inspirational Quotes (152)

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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.
Augustus Hare
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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. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Augustus William Hare
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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
Augustus William Hare
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They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.
Augustus William Hare
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
Augustus
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
Augustus
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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.
Augustus Hare
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Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back but Kit did not move.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
Augustus
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Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling
Augustus Toplady
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Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.
Augustus Napier
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Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.
George Augustus Henry Sala
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
Augustus
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Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.
Augustus De Morgan
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Beauty is a fairy sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.
George Augustus Henry Sala
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At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.
Augustus
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Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought which has no bottom the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.
George Augustus Henry Sala
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
Augustus William Hare
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
Augustus
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I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.
Augustus De Morgan
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The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.
Augustus John
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A youth's love is the more passionate virgin love is the more idolatrous.
Augustus William Hare
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
Augustus
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A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
Augustus William Hare
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