Hannah More quotes

Hannah More was an English writer, philanthropist, and social reformer known for her influential works in literature and education. As a prominent member of the Blue Stockings Society, she advocated for the moral and intellectual improvement of women. She played a significant role in the campaign to abolish the slave trade and promoted widespread access to education. Here are 20 of her quotes:

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

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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

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

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In men this blunder still you find,- All think their little set mankind.

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The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

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

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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

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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!

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... There's a joy, To the fond votaries of fame unknown, To hear the still small voice of conscience speak In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul.

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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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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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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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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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It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.

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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

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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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