"Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what……" — Hannah More
"Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request."
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56 Quotes by Hannah More
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In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech,…
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has…
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire…
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In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
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In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain…
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There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no…
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man,…
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Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not…
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How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they…
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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