If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. - Augustus William Hare
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
- Augustus William Hare
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. - Augustus William Hare
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself. - Augustus William Hare
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody. - Augustus William Hare
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
Seeking is not always the way to find. - Augustus William Hare
Seeking is not always the way to find.
The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will … - Augustus William Hare
The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will …
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. - Augustus William Hare
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. - Augustus William Hare
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. - Augustus William Hare
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
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