In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must… — 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
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
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost… — 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
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
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill… — 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
