All Hannah More Quotes
- Sow an action, reap a habit. Action
- Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than… Active
- When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. Act
- Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure. Among
- That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even… Allowed
- Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,… All
- Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Anger
- Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. Alcohol
- Goals help you overcome short-term problems. Goal
- If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never… Body
- He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to… Avail
- Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in… Altars
- It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what… Appreciate
- Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert All
- Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. If faith… All
- While duty measures the regard it owes With scrupulous precision and nice justice, Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its… All