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Famous Augustus William Hare Quotes
“Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?”
“I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.”
“Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.”
“There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.”
“A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.”
“Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.”
“Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.”
“Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.”
“The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.”
“The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.”
“Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.”
“Seeking is not always the way to find.”
“Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.”
“We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.”
“Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.”
“I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.”