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It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
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Did not God
Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask,
We should be ruined at our own request.
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How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!
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In men this blunder still you find,—
All think their little set mankind.
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He fell into the common error of those who begin to read late in life — that of thinking that what he did not know himself, was equally new to others; and he was apt to fancy that he and the author he was reading were the only two people in the world who knew any thing.
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Sparks electric only strike
On souls electrical alike;
The flash of intellect expires,
Unless it meet congenial fires.
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Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.
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All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.
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My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
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A sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action: it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing consequences, and guarding against them; it is expecting contingencies and being prepared for them.
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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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A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
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By one slight insinuation,
One scarce perceiv'd exaggeration;
Sly Ridicule, with half a word,
Can fix her stigma of — absurd.
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He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's graces
By plucking bon-mots from their places.
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We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.
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The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
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Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.
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The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
Compelled to starve at an unreal feast:
A spark, which upward tends by nature's force:
A stream diverted from its parent source;
A drop dissever'd from the boundless sea;
A moment, parted from eternity;
A pilgrim panting for the rest to come;
An exile, anxious for his native home.
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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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Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.
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Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.
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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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We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute.
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Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices
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The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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Born:
February 2, 1745
Died:
September 7, 1833
(aged 88)
Bio:
Hannah More was an English religious writer and philanthropist.
Known for:
Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809)
The shepherd of Salisbury Plain (1790)
The works of Hannah More (1801)
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