Hannah More Quotes (24 Quotes)


    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.

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

    Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

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

    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.


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

    Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

    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.

    We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch in the family, our tempers and in company, our tongues.

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

    There are three requisites to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings a thankful reflection on the goodness of the giver a deep sense of our own unworthiness and a recollection of the uncertainty of our long possessing them. The first will make us grateful the second, humble and the third, moderate.

    Life is a short day but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lead to good.

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

    Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

    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.

    Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

    The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

    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.

    One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

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

    Prompt sense of equality to thee belongs The swift redress of unexamined wrongs Eager to serve, the cause perhaps untried, But always apt to choose the suffering side.

    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.

    Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

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


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