"Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or……" — Hannah More
"Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains."
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56 Quotes by Hannah More
Hannah More has 56 quotes on this site.
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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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More Chains Quotes
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
— Annie Besant
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost…
— Jello Biafra
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Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney…
— Joe Biden
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert…
— Orlando Bloom
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks…
— Wade Boggs
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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of…
— Jo Brand
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
— Wernher von Braun
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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