Julius Charles Hare quotes
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“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”
-- Julius Charles HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486
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“Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.”
-- Julius Charles HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.475
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“By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.”
-- Julius Charles HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.180
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“What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.”
-- Julius Charles HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.210
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“The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.”
-- Julius Charles HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.434
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“If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.”
-- Julius Charles HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.502
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“The virtue of Christianity is obedience.”
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“Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!”
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“Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.”
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“Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.”
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“The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.”
-- Julius Charles HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1848). “Guesses at Truth: Second Series”, p.214
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“The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.”
-- Julius Charles HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.162
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“A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.”
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“Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.”
-- Julius Charles HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.103
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“True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.”
-- Julius Charles HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.444
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