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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
Hannah More
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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.
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I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.
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Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children He chastens them in love He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.
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Yes, thou art ever present, power divine not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.
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Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.
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