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Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil but inactivity cannot be led to good.
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 live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.
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Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.
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Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
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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.
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If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.
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He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.
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We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.
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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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