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In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind. — Hannah More

She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other. — Kristin Hannah

I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author. — Sophie Hannah

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint! — Hannah More

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. — Hannah More

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God. — Hannah More

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it. — Hannah More

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long. — Hannah More

In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear? — Hannah More

One of the drawbacks of sleeping with whores, he thought lazily. You got what you paid for, and not a goddamn thing more. — Kristin Hannah

Who has declared that murder is more newsworthy than the heartwarming story of an elderly woman who delivers Meals-on-Wheels to local AIDS sufferers? — Kristin Hannah

Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be. — Hannah Whitall Smith

She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare. — Kristin Hannah

It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more people. — Hannah Simone

He is a gay man, my dear, to say no more; and such are the companions we wish when we join a party avowedly formed for pleasure. — Hannah Webster Foster

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb. — Hannah More

We live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice. — Hannah More

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt

But he wasn't that man anymore. He had lost too much, and in his loss, he'd thrown more away. — Kristin Hannah

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat. — Hannah More

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. — Hannah More

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. — Hannah More

With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. — Hannah More

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. — Hannah More

Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever. — Kristin Hannah

daughter had had a way of saying things that rubbed Nora the wrong way. More often than not, they both ended up saying something they regretted. — Kristin Hannah

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed. — Hannah More

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure. — Hannah More

A small unkindness is a great offence. — Hannah More

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible. — Hannah More

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'? — Eugene Field

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain! — Hannah More

The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live. — Hannah Arendt

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you? — Kristin Hannah

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now — Hannah Kent

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request. — Hannah More

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on. — Hanoi Hannah

I have more fun playing Hannah, because I like to sing and dress up. — Miley Cyrus

Any more motherly attention and I could end up strapped to a table in Ward B singing 'I Gotta Be Me. — Kristin Hannah

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 ... — Hannah More

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble. — Hannah More

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. — Hannah More

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die. — Hannah More

Even more important than what she gave her garden was what it gave her. In it, she found a sense of calm. — Kristin Hannah

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give. — Hannah More

When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. — Hannah More

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there. — Hannah Whitall Smith

I am afraid t put it into words, this fragile impossible hope of mine, and more afraid not to. — Kristin Hannah

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. — Hannah More

The uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it. — Hannah More

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is. - Hannah More — Karen Swallow Prior

Far below, a deep blue lake absorbed the reflection of the clouds. Manicured gardens allowed the villa's occupants - and, more important, — Kristin Hannah

I've been out of my comfort zone a lot, and it makes me more vulnerable, but I have to draw the line somewhere, and don't think I would go skydiving! — Hannah Storm

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means. — Hannah More

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. — Hannah More

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded. — Hannah More

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. — Hannah More

Love never reasons but profusely gives ... gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little. — Hannah More

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use. — Hannah More

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. — Hannah More

It's cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit. — Hannah More

The Mularkeys all saw love as a durable, reliable thing, easy to recognize ... Love could be more fragile than a sparrow's bone. — Kristin Hannah

Sow an action, reap a habit. — Hannah More

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart. — Hannah More

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed. — Hannah More

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse? — Hannah More

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 — Hannah More

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself. — Hannah Arendt

She was irritated, briefly, by the thought that she might be becoming more mature. Why should she become a better person when no one else did? — Sophie Hannah

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ... — Hannah More

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves. — Hannah More

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good. — Hannah More

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. — Hannah More

The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. — Hannah More

How short is human life! the very breath
Which frames my words accelerates my death. — Hannah More

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil. — Hannah More

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. — Hannah More

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity. — Hannah More

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it. — Hannah More

A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres. — Kristin Hannah

If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us. — Sophie Hannah

Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. — Hannah More

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long. — Hannah More

Eating was an essential, sensual and communal activity requiring nothing more than taste buds and an open mind. — Hannah Mary Rothschild

Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can. — Hannah Hurnard

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing. — Hannah More

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art. — Hannah Gadsby

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. — Hannah More

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart. — Hannah More

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better. — Hannah More

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. — Hannah More

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. — Hannah More

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 ... — Hannah More

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little. — Hannah More

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

Names govern the world. — Hannah More

The soul on earth is an immortal guest. — Hannah More

If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody. — Hannah More