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

  Hannah More

  Practice, Imagination, May

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

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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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• 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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• No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

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  Flattery, Virtue, Court

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.342

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• Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

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  Friends, Long, Pay

  Hannah More, Zachary Macaulay (1860). “Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq: Containing Notices of Lord Macaulay's Youth. Now First Published”, p.200

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• Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.

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  Fashion, Opposites, Evil

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.355

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• The keen spirit
  Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
  Start into instant action, and at once
  Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

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  Spirit, Action, Resolve

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.338

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• Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

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  Imagination, Events, Shapes

  Hannah More (1838). “The Poetical Works of Hannah More”, p.73

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• There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

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  Vanity, Littles, Faults

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.132

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• Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.

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  Spring, Joy, Ease

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.380

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• nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Practice

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.365

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• A crown! what is it?
  It is to bear the miseries of a people!
  To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents,
  And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

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  Kings, People, Bears

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.351

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• Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

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  Heart, Luxury, Vices

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.341

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• Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

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  Evil, Forgiving, Resentment

  Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.272

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• The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

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  Heart, Hearing, Injury

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.381

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• oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

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  Silence, Oblivion, Offspring

  Hannah More (1853). “The Works of Hannah More: Practical piety”, p.268

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