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Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
Hannah More
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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.
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The soul on earth is an immortal guest.
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My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
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He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.
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it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.
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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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It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.
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Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
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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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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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oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.
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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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Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
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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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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
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The secret heart is fair devotion's temple there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.
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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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Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.
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