Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.Augustus Hare
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
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As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
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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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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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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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