Hannah More Short Quotes

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation...

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Oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

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Parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

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All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

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Expectation…quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

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All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

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

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

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A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

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The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

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Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes.

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The idle, life's worst burthens bear,
And, what toil escapes, despair!

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

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The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

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In men this blunder still you find,—
All think their little set mankind.

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Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

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It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

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

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Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

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

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He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only...

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Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

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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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Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

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

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

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The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

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Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.

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