Quotes by Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare

British writer

Lived from: 1792 - 1834

Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 17 november 1792 Died: 22 january 1834

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  • Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?
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  • Some men treat the God of their fathers as they treat their father's friend. They do not deny him; by no means: they only deny themselves to him, when he is good enough to call upon them.
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  • Song is the tone of feeling. If song, however, be the tone of feeling, what is beautiful singing? The balance of feeling, not the absence of it.
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  • The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.
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  • The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
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  • The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so.
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  • The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
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  • The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
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  • The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.
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  • To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.
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  • True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
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  • We never know the true value of friends. While they live, we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them, we only see their virtues.
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  • What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.
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  • When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.
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