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A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
Hannah More
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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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In men this blunder still you find all think their little set mankind.
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Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.
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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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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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When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
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Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.
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