Augustus Hare
Augustus John Cuthbert Hare was a British writer and biographer who worked in the English language.
Born in Rome in 1834, Hare was educated at Harrow School before proceeding to University College, Oxford. These years of formal education took place in England, where he was a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
As both a writer and a biographer, Hare produced work in English. His practice of biography placed him within a form of prose writing concerned with recording the lives of others, while his broader identity as a writer indicates engagement with written work beyond biography alone.
Hare died in St Leonards on 22 January 1903. His work as a biographer and writer, composed in the English language, defines the record he left.
Quotes by Augustus Hare
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, – the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life’s recollections.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.
Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.