Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.Augustus Hare
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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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?
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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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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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