It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son… — Hannah More Copy Share
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die. — Hannah More Copy Share
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,… — Hannah More Copy Share
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only. — Hannah More Copy Share
We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we… — Hannah More Copy Share
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed. — Hannah More Copy Share
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all… — Hannah More Copy Share
If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none… — Hannah More Copy Share
nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to… — Hannah More Copy Share
“Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” — Hannah More Copy Share
How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform;… — Hannah More Copy Share
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers. — Hannah More Copy Share
