Quotes by Hannah More

Hannah More

… it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

Rich

Sober

Trials

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

Imagination

May

Practice

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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!

Bears

Kings

People

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A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Defeat

Ends

Inspirational

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A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

Cold

Envy

Spirit

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A small unkindness is a great offence.

Kindness

Offence

Unkindness

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

Fire

Love

Water

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

Affliction

Exercise

Moral

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

Affliction

Character

School

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After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

Heart

Luxury

Temptation

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