Best Quotes by Hannah More (Top 10)
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
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My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
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Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
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