"When we read, we fancy we could be……" — Hannah More

"When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word."

— Hannah More

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56 Quotes by Hannah More

Hannah More has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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