The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted. — 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
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die. — Hannah More Copy Share
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
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only. — Hannah More Copy Share
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
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed. — Hannah More Copy Share
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
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
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
“Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” — Hannah More Copy Share
How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform;… — Hannah More Copy Share
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers. — Hannah More Copy Share
