All Hannah More Quotes
- Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. Foibles
- No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. Adulation
- Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed… Aim
- It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use. Christianity
- To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint! All
- The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded. Doe
- Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. Chains
- Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker… Attacks
- A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat. Defeat
- The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading,… Ailment
- If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody. Constantly
- Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. Depart
- Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates. Creates
- Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request. Ask
- Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right. Cheap
- 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