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"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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"No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."
"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."
"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."
Explore more quotes by Augustus Hare
"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
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