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Than Quotes by Augustus Hare
- 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…
- Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
- What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
- 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…
- 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…
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino