Hannah More Quotes
Top 86 wise famous quotes and sayings by Hannah More
Hannah More Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.
The uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.
Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.
To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone ...
Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.
If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.
We live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. ... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Love never reasons but profusely gives ... gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little.
It's cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit.
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it
Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...
Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.
He who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.
Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.
Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother ...
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.