Hannah More Quotes - Page 5

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• Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

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  Mistake, Youth, Penetration

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

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• A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

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  Envy, Spirit, Cold

  Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.38

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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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• 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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• 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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• Love never reasons, but profusely gives,
  Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
  And trembles then, lest it has done too little.

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  Love, Giving, Romance

  "I'll Tell You What. Next Door Neighbours. Wise Man Of The East. Percy. Trip To Scarborough".

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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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• 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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• If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

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  Littles, Modesty, Parades

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.344

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• There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

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  Christian, Men, Infidelity

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

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• Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

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  World, Succeed, Novel

  Hannah More (1841). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.345

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• Names govern the world.

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  Names, World

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

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• when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?

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  Thinking, Talking, Listening

  Hannah More (1841). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.373

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• the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

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  Silence, Variables, Speech

  Hannah More (1853). “Poems, sacred dramas, essays”, p.278

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• The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

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  Prayer, Book, Reading

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• Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

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  Pain, Addiction, Strange

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

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

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  Violent Acts, Envy, May

  Hannah More (1834). “The works of Hannah More, with a memoir and notes”, p.291

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• Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

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  Heart, Perfection, Selfishness

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.719

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• Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

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  Christian, Roots, Inward

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.648

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• My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it.

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  Retirement, Believe, Character

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.390

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• parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

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  Mistake, Parent, Genius

  Hannah More, Coelebs (pseud.) (1809). “Cœlebs in search of a wife [by H. More].”, p.238

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• It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

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  Time, Might, Expenses

  Hannah More (1860). “Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, containing notices of Lord Macaulay's youth: Edited and arranged by Arthur Roberts”, p.197

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• To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

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  Royalty, Virtue, Manners

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

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  Book, People, Good People

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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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