A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than… — 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
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants.… — 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
Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever… — 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
