It is a proof of our natura... by Augustus Hare, an English Writer

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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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Name: Augustus Hare

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Mar 13, 1834

Date of Death: Jan 22, 1903

Profession: Writer

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A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

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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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There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

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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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