Hannah More Quotes

• Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

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  Tags in Difficulties

• 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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  Topics in Anger, Economy

  Tags in Expense, Spirits, Saves, Hatred, Heart, Waste, Forgiveness, Cost

• 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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  Tags in Feels

• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They’re soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

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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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  Tags in Like

• 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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  Tags in Prayer

• Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

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  Tags in Duty

• It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.

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  Tags in Learning

• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

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  Topics in Youth

• Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

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  Topics in Genius

• 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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  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Forgivness

• Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears, creates.

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  Topics in Fear

• In grief we know the worst of what we feel, But who can tell the end of what we fear?

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  Topics in Fear

• 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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  Topics in Love

• 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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  Topics in Children

Hannah More (16)

Birth:	2nd February, 1745
Death:	7th September, 1833
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Hannah More was an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist.

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