In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long. — 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
We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad… — 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… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint! — 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
