Top 100 Hannah More Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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#6. It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

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#7. It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

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#11. 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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#12. Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

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#13. He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.

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

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#15. Sow an action, reap a habit.

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#16. 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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#17. Love never reasons but profusely gives ... gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little.

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#18. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. ... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

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#19. The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

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#20. What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

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#21. The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

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

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#23. Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

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#24. Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

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#25. The uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

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#26. If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

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

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#31. Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.

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#32. Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

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#33. Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

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#34. 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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#35. Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

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#36. Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

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#37. Bible Christianity is what I love ... a Christianity practical and pure, which teaches holiness, humility, repentance and faith in Christ; and which after summing up all the Evangelical graces, declares that the greatest of these is charity .

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#38. 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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#39. Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

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

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#41. We contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.

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#42. Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

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#43. Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

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

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#45. Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

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#49. It's cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit.

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#50. To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone ...

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#51. 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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#52. All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

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#53. If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

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#54. 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.

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#55. Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

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#56. Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

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#57. Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

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#58. 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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#59. Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

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#60. Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

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#61. 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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#62. The soul on earth is an immortal guest.

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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. Quietness is my definition of happiness.

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#66. 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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#67. A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

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#68. The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

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

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#70. Oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

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#71. 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

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#72. Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

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#73. 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.

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

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#75. It may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.

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#76. Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

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

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#78. If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

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

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#80. 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.

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#81. If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

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#82. Parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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.

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#86. 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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#87. I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother ...

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#88. The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

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

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#90. One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

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#91. 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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#92. He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only ...

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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. We live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

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#96. 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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#97. 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!

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#98. 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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#99. Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

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#100. 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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