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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.
Augustus Hare
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Augustus Hare
Age: 68 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 13
Died: 1903
Died: January 22
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The Eternal City
Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
Augustus J. C. Hare
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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.
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The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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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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Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
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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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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
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Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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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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Crimes sometimes shock us too much vices almost always too little.
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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
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Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
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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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Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
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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.
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Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
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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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