Hannah More Quotes

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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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  Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Anger

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.639

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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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  Prayer, Soul, Feelings

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• Sow an action, reap a habit.

  Hannah More

  Action, Habit, Reap

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• Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

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  Mind, Needs, Repentance

  Hannah More (1847). “The Complete Works of Hannah More”, p.179

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• The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

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  Self, Deception, Self Deception

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• 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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  Christian, Light, Darkness

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• He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others may find an eternity in which to suffer for himself.

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  Time, Sick, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 583), 1895.

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• Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

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  School, Character, Affliction

  Hannah More (1812). “Practical piety...”, p.206

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• After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Luxury, Temptation

  Hannah More (1818). “Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great, to General Society: An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World. Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont. And Tracts Written During the Riots of 1817”, p.9

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• What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

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  Prayer, Rain, Blessing

  Hannah More (1857). “The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain: And Other Tales”, p.333

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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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  Ocean, Helping Others, Thinking

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• No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

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  Christian, Men, Bed

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 348), 1895.

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• It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

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  Religious, Natural Talent, Use

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.468

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• All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

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  God, Desire, Gift From God

  Hannah More (1853). “The Works of Hannah More: Essays”, p.324

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• The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

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  Education, Character, Race

  Hannah More (1810). “Cœlebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals”, p.14

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

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  Prayer, Sometimes, Mercy

  'Moses in the Bulrushes' (1782) pt. 1, l. 35

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• The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
  Compelled to starve at an unreal feast:
  A spark, which upward tends by nature's force:
  A stream diverted from its parent source;
  A drop dissever'd from the boundless sea;
  A moment, parted from eternity;
  A pilgrim panting for the rest to come;
  An exile, anxious for his native home.

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  Home, Sea, Parent

  Hannah More, “Reflections Of King Hezekiah, In His Sickness”

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• The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

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  Doe, World

  Hannah More (1811). “Practical piety, or, The influence of religion of the heart on the conduct of the life”, p.4

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• We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

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  Mistake, Lying, Exercise

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.447

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• All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

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  Formidable, Reformation, Seems

  Hannah More (1803). “The Works of Hannah More, in Four Volumes: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published”, p.279

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• He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

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  Taken, Sin, Guilty

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.287

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• The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

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  Religious, Memories, Heart

  Hannah More (1827). “The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life”, p.370

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• we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Feelings, Age

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• Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Expenses

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.639

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• How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!

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  Teaching, Might, Able

  'Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies' (1777)

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