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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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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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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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The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.
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Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.
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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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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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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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It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.
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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.
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Rage is for little wrongs despair is dumb.
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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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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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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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Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil but inactivity cannot be led to good.
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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.
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Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.
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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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we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.
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If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought for our words are few and our deeds none at all.
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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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