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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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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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Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.
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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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A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
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People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.
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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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Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil but inactivity cannot be led to good.
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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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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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