A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
--Augustus William Hare
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
--Augustus William Hare
Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
--Augustus William Hare
Every wise man lives in an observatory.
--Augustus William Hare
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.
--Augustus William Hare
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
--Augustus William Hare
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
--Augustus William Hare
It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.
--Augustus William Hare
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
--Augustus William Hare
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.
--Augustus William Hare
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.
--Augustus William Hare
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.
--Augustus William Hare
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
--Augustus William Hare
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
Seeking is not always the way to find.
--Augustus William Hare
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.
--Augustus William Hare
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
--Augustus William Hare
The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men.
--Augustus William Hare
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
--Augustus William Hare
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.
--Augustus William Hare
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
--Augustus William Hare
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
--Augustus William Hare
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.
--Augustus William Hare
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
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
--Augustus William Hare
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
--Augustus William Hare
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
--Augustus William Hare
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities. No wonder, then, that most people are so shy of praising anything.
--Augustus William Hare
When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.
--Augustus William Hare
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
--Augustus William Hare
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