Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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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.Hannah More
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
Hannah More
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Hannah More
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.
Hannah More
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
Hannah More
Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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