Julius Hare quotes
Julius Hare (1795–1855): British theologian. The library holds 63 quotes by Julius Hare. The 60 below are the most quoted; search the library in the maker for the rest.
Often about: life, faith, nature, love, art, family
The best-known Julius Hare quotes
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What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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A Christian is God Almighty’s gentleman.
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as under adversity; strong and deep ones have two highest tides—when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.
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Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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Surely half the world must be blind; they can see nothing unless it glitters.
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Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather.
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Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek.
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A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is often an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief.
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Poverty breeds wealth, and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth to form the mould is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other.
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Much of this world’s wisdom is still acquired by necromancy—by consulting the oracular dead.
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Many a man’s vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.
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A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.
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Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
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Languages are the barometers of national thought and character.
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Never put much confidence in those who put no confidence in others.
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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him to prepare the world for his coming.
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Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.
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Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
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He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.
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Strength was the virtue of Paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
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When will talkers refrain from evil-speaking? When listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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Many of the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and often a worse, to what was well known before.
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Religion presents few difficulties to the humble, many to the proud, innumerable ones to the vain.
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Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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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.
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Some persons take reproof good-humouredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.
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Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power.
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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.
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Oratory is a warrior’s eye flashing from under a philosopher’s brow.
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He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.
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We like slipping, but not falling; our real desire is to be tempted enough.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Handsomeness is the more animal excellence, beauty the more imaginative.
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Examples would indeed be excellent things, were not people so modest that none will set them, and so vain that none will follow them.
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The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men.
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
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To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.
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Our poetry of the eighteenth century was prose; our prose of the seventeenth, poetry.
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Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.
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There is a glare about worldly success, which is very apt to dazzle men’s eyes.
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The ultimate tendency of civilisation is towards barbarism.
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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
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None but a fool is always right.
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Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.
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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honour.
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Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men.
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To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin.
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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
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Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified.
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Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
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Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
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Children always turn toward the light.