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The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!
Hannah More
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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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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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That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it
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Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.
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The soul on earth is an immortal guest.
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Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
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If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.
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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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Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
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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.
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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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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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we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.
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A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
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Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.
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Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
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A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
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Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
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