The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.Augustus Hare
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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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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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.
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