Augustus Hare

Writer

1834-03-13

Books by Augustus Hare

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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
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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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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
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A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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