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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
Abolitionist
Essayist
Philanthropist
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Tragedy Writer
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Will Chip
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
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Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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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 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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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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How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform to entertain, when they might instruct and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!
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Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.
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Rage is for little wrongs despair is dumb.
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In men this blunder still you find all think their little set mankind.
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Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
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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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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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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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eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.
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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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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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There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.
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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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Yes, thou art ever present, power divine not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.
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