Hannah More Quotes

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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.

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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.... Forgiveness saves expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

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We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

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I believe she would be jealous of a fine day, if her husband praised it.

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If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

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How short is human life! the very breath!
Which frames my words, accelerates my death.

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Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

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Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

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The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

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That night no sleep his eyelids prest,
He thought; and thought's a foe to rest.

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We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

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Expectation…quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

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What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

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A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents,
And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

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It was not so much the comfort of neatness, as the praise of neatness, which she coveted.

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Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

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In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?

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Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

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Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

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Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.

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No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest,
Save he who courts flattery.

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Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit—no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

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As he had always fancied that piety was a melancholy, gloomy thing, and as he felt his own mind really gloomy, he was willing to think that he was growing pious.

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