Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Artifice is the work of mere man, in the imbecility of his mimic understanding.

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quotes

A lawyer’s brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

— Augustus William Hare

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

— 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 Painting be Poetry’s sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

— Augustus William Hare

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

— Augustus William Hare

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

— Augustus William Hare

What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent’s in at once upon him and on one another!

— Augustus William Hare

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

— Augustus William Hare

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

— 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

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

— Augustus William Hare

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

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

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

— Augustus William Hare

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

— Augustus William Hare

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.

— Augustus William Hare

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men’s eyes.

— Augustus William Hare

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

— Augustus William Hare

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

— Augustus William Hare

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
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