Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
More Quotes from Augustus Hare:
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.Augustus Hare
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Augustus Hare
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
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
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
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?
Augustus Hare
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