“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”

— Julius Charles Hare · Life quote

“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”

— JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Clergyman and writer · 1795 – 1855

Julius Charles Hare was an English cleric and writer, Archdeacon of Lewes, who co-authored 'Guesses at Truth' (1827) with his brother Augustus Hare and wrote widely on theology, literature and German philosophy.

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