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

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

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

Augustus Hare

People

Will

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

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.

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.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Augustus Hare

Flowers

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?

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

Augustus Hare

Being

Saying

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.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Augustus Hare

Character

Information

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.

Augustus Hare

Horses