Augustus William Hare Quotes

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

Augustus William Hare

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Augustus William Hare

A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene

Augustus William Hare
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