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

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  Funny, Women, Memorable

  Letter to her sister, 1775

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• Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

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  Long, Action, Common

  Hannah More (1809). “Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education: With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune”

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• My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

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  Writing, Simple, Class

  Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.224

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• There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

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  Two, Evil, World

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• The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.

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  Ubiquity, Support, Nerves

  Hannah More (1860). “Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, containing notices of Lord Macaulay's youth: Edited and arranged by Arthur Roberts”, p.9

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• O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

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  Jealous, Hue, Flesh

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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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• Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.

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  Nice, Soul, Rays

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.301

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

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  Praise, Substitutes, Right Thing

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.534

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

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  Pleasure, Vocation, Trade

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.162

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• Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

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  Two, Evil, May

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.474

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