Hannah More Quotes

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

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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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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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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

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

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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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