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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

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Augustus Hare
Age: 68 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 13
Died: 1903
Died: January 22
Biographer
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The Eternal City
Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
Augustus J. C. Hare
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Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
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Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much vices almost always too little.
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What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
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Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
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Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
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Some people carry their hearts in their heads very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
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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.
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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
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Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.
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Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
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Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
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