To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
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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.Augustus Hare
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.
Augustus Hare
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Augustus Hare
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.
Augustus Hare
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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