Quote

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

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
Fit
Renovate
Necessary
Cleanse
Cases
Humour
Body
Sanity
May
Temporary
Mind
Illness
Madness
Carry
Humours

More quotes by Augustus William Hare

Image
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
Image
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing if ill-packed, next to nothing.
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
The body too has its rights and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.
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
I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
Augustus William Hare
Image
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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 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
The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away so more blood must be shed to renew it.
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
Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
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
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
Augustus William Hare
Image
Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
Augustus William Hare
Image
I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
Augustus William Hare