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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!

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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!
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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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A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
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The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
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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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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.
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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.
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the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.
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Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
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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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Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.
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Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.
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Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.
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A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
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oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
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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 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.
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