"We have employments assigned to us for every……" — Hannah More
"We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues."
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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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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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