Quotes by Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare

British writer

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Quotes 31 till 34 of 34.

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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.