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

  Hannah More

  Gratitude, Blessing, Littles

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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.

  Hannah More

  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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• 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

  Art, Women, Silence

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.345

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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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• 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!

  Hannah More

  Teaching, Might, Able

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

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• A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

  Hannah More

  Inspirational, Defeat, Ends

  Hannah More (1836). “The Words of Hannah More ...”, p.181

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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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• 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.

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  Hard Work, People, Tasks

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• We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

  Hannah More

  Life, Watches, Employment

  Hannah More (1811). “Practical piety, or, The influence of religion of the heart on the conduct of the life”, p.47

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• We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute.

  Hannah More

  Religious, Memories, Heart

  Hannah More (1814). “The Works of Hannah More: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published ...”, p.98

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• Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.

  Hannah More

  Grateful, Humble, Blessing

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• Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.

  Hannah More

  Children, Father, Suffering

  Hannah More (1811). “Practical Piety”, p.219

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• Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Reflection, Men

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• If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.

  Hannah More

  Hate, Enemy, Should

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• I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.

  Hannah More

  People, Physicians, Wonder

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.317

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• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

  Hannah More

  Tree, Produce, Ifs

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.223

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• We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven.
  Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our
  forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives,
  for in forgiving one another we act towards one another
  as He has acted towards us.

  Hannah More

  Forgiveness, Jesus, Forgiving

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• When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

  Hannah More

  Fancy, Bears, Martyr

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

  Hannah More

  Luxury, Storm, Poverty

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

  Hannah More

  Death, Human Life, Humans

  Hannah More (1827). “Sacred Drams: The Search After Happiness, A. Other Poems”, p.122

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• A small unkindness is a great offence.

  Hannah More

  Kindness, Offence, Unkindness

  Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.338

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• Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.

  Hannah More

  Time, Art, Space

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• 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

  Humble, Sleep, Pride

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.753

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

  Hannah More

  Love, Fire, Water

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• Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.

  Hannah More

  God, Heart, Humble

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.676

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