Quotes from 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
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.
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How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.
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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.
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Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
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When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
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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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Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
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He who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.
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We live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
- Hannah More