"We are apt to mistake our vocation by……" — Hannah More
"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 the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us."
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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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