Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear? — Hannah More Copy Share Image
A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation:… — 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 Image
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
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 Image
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
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 Image
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
