How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to… — 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
I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.… — 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
