Hannah More Quotes

English - Writer February 2, 1745 - September 7, 1833

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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.”

― Hannah More

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

― Hannah More

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

― Hannah More

“Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”

― Hannah More

“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.”

― Hannah More

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

― Hannah More

“Imagination frames events unknown,

In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,

And what it fears creates.”

― Hannah More

“It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.”

― Hannah More

“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.”

― Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife

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

― Hannah More

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.

Hannah More

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

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

Hannah More

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

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