Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Hannah More
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
Abolitionist
Essayist
Philanthropist
Playwright
Poet
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Will Chip
Half
Human
Foibles
Humans
Unkindness
Make
Trifles
Things
Springs
Misery
Spring
Since
More quotes by Hannah More
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.
Hannah More
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
Hannah More
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.
Hannah More
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.
Hannah More
To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
Hannah More
it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.
Hannah More
It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.
Hannah More
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
Hannah More
If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.
Hannah More
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
Hannah More
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.
Hannah More
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil but inactivity cannot be led to good.
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.
Hannah More
nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.
Hannah More
It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.
Hannah More
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.
Hannah More
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
Hannah More
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.
Hannah More
Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow then it will see itself within his heart.
Hannah More
