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The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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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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oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
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The soul on earth is an immortal guest.
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Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
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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.
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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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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.
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