Hannah More Quotes

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• In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
• Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
• Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little....
• One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to…
• In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
• In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
• There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being…
• Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to…
• Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is…
• How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to…
• Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
• Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those…
• My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of…
• O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness,…
• No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.
• Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
• We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over…
• After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper…
• It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed,…

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