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Names govern the world.

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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.
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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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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.
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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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The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
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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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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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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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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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The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.
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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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Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
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Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
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People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.
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If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.
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The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
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Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
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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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the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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