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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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.Augustus Hare
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.
Augustus Hare
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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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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It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
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