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Augustus William Hare Quote: “The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.”

51. “The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.”

52. “Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “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.”

53. “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

Augustus William Hare Quote: “When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don’t know, from a person whom they do know – an authority good for nothing.”

54. “When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don’t know, from a person whom they do know – an authority good for nothing.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “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.”

55. “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

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.”

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

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.”

57. “Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day’s of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.”

58. “Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day’s of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.”

59. “I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.”

60. “One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “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.”

61. “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

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.”

62. “Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law...”

63. “Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law...”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.”

64. “I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer’s shop.”

65. “There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer’s shop.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.”

66. “The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.”

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

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.”

68. “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

Augustus William Hare Quote: “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.”

69. “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.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.”

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

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.”

71. “Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.”

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

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.”

73. “How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “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.”

74. “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

Augustus William Hare Quote: “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.”

75. “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

Augustus William Hare Quote: “A youth’s love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.”

76. “A youth’s love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.”

77. “I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.”

78. “Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.”

79. “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

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.”

80. “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

Augustus William Hare Quote: “There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.”

81. “There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.”

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.”

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

— Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare Quote: “Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.”

83. “Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.”

— Augustus William Hare

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