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• 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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  Children, Men, Roots

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

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  Integrity, Secret, Tests

  Hannah More (1838). “Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. Comprehending observations on domestic habits and manners, religion and morals ... With a memoir of the author”, p.253

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

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  Perfect, Heaven, Joy

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• Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

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  Duty, Interfere, Discretion

  "Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana".

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• People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.

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  Heart, Men, People

  Hannah More (1857). “Complete Works”, p.490

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• Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

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  Desire, Want, Forget

  Hannah More (1834). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.143

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• Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

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  Lying, Heart, Temptation

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.360

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• eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

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  Imagination, Depth, Eternity

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.593

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• Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

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  Pain, Imagination, Reign

  Hannah More (1803). “The Works of Hannah More, in Four Volumes: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published”, p.87

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• If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

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  Hate, Hatred, Enemy

  "Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More".

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• ... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

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  Trials, Sober, Rich

  Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.323

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• Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

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  Dumb, Despair, Littles

  Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.158

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

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  Paint, Thee, Knows

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.379

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• Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

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  Gentleness

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• Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.

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  Daughter, Spring, Women

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.205

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• It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

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  Thinking, Meditation, Humanity

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• it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.

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  Character, Opposites, Numbers

  Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More: Structures on modern system of female education”, p.7

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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.

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  Education, Thinking, Bread

  Hannah More (1843). “Works, Complete”, p.337

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

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  Practice, Imagination, May

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.175

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• The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.

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  Evil, Abuse, Language

  Hannah More (1853). “The Works of Hannah More: Hints towards forming the character of a young princess”, p.319

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• 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.

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  Our Words, Deeds, Crime

  Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.65

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• In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

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  Conceited, Men, Thinking

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.169

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• When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.

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  Vanity, Contentment, Emulation

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• The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.

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  Heart, Sacrifice, Light

  Hannah More (1827). “Sacred Drams: The Search After Happiness, A. Other Poems”, p.104

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• The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

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  Spirit, Occasions, Prompts

  Hannah More (1853). “Poems, sacred dramas, essays”, p.188

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