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Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.
Hannah More
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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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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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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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Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
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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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... 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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In men this blunder still you find all think their little set mankind.
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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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Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
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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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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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Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
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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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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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