Hannah More Quotes

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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Forgiveness, Anger, Heart

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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Love, Done, Reasons

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

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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Men, Children, Evil

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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Life, Faith, God

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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Duty, Discretion, Depart

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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Religion, May, Light

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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Help, Problems, Goals

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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Poverty, Youth, Storms

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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May, Him, Cannot

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 2, 1745

Died: September 7, 1833

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