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> [If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/if-i-wanted-to-punish-an-enemy-it-should-be-by-fastening-on-him-the/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

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> [If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/if-i-wished-to-punish-my-enemy-i-should-make-him-hate-somebody/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

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> [If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/if-i-wanted-to-punish-an-enemy-it-should-be-by-fastening-on-him-or/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

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## More by Hannah More

> [I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/i-am-persuaded-that-there-is-no-affection-of-the-human-heart-more/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/wisdom-views-with-an-indifferent-eye-all-finite-joys-all-blessings/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/yes-thou-art-ever-present-power-divine-not-circumscribed-by-time-nor/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/all-reformations-seem-formidable-before-they-are-attempted/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/he-who-has-once-taken-to-drink-can-seldom-be-said-to-be-guilty-of-one/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/we-are-too-ready-to-imagine-that-we-are-religious-because-we-know/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/a-corrupt-practice-may-be-abolished-but-a-soiled-imagination-is-not/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/a-faint-endeavor-ends-in-a-sure-defeat/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/oh-the-joy-of-young-ideas-painted-on-the-mind-in-the-warm-glowing/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/the-world-does-not-require-so-much-to-be-informed-as-to-be-reminded/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/if-we-commit-any-crime-or-do-any-good-here-it-must-be-in-thought-for/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/nothing-is-more-common-than-to-mistake-the-sign-for-the-thing-itself/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [“Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/forgiveness-spares-the-expense-of-anger-the-cost-of-hatred-the-waste/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/how-much-it-is-to-be-regretted-that-the-british-ladies-should-ever/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

> [Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/who-are-those-ever-multiplying-authors-that-with-unparalleled/)

[Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/)

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