Quote

Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.

Augustus William Hare

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Augustus William Hare
Age: 41 †
Born: 1792
Born: November 17
Died: 1834
Died: January 22
Author
Writer
Augustus Hare
Easiest
Former
Done

More quotes by Augustus William Hare

Image
I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker for it was not on the door of heaven.
Augustus William Hare
Image
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
Augustus William Hare
Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
Augustus William Hare
Image
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
Image
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
Augustus William Hare
Image
Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
Augustus William Hare
Image
The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.
Augustus William Hare
Image
Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
Augustus William Hare
Image
Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
Augustus William Hare
Image
I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.
Augustus William Hare
Image
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
Image
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
Augustus William Hare
Image
We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
Augustus William Hare
Image
Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
Augustus William Hare
Image
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
Augustus William Hare
Image
We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
Augustus William Hare
Image
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
Augustus William Hare
Image
Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
Augustus William Hare
Image
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.
Augustus William Hare
Image
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