Hannah More Quotes
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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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oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
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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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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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Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.
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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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Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.
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He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others may find an eternity in which to suffer for himself.
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Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
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A small unkindness is a great offence.
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Names govern the world.
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Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
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It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.
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Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
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In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
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Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
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Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.
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the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.
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The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.
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It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
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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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In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
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Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.
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To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.
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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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when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?
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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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Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
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There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.
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Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.
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