Quote by Augustus Hare
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for th

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? – Augustus Hare

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

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