Quotes about Augustus Hare

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black...

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Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

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Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has...

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It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I...

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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand...

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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and...

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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is...

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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set,...

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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

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As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things...

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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his...

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