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"Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."

"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."

"Heaven's currency is friendship."
Explore more quotes by Augustus Hare

"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them."

"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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