Augustus Hare Quotes - Page 2

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

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.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.