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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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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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Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
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Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.
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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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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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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
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In men this blunder still you find all think their little set mankind.
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Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
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oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
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Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
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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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We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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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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Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow then it will see itself within his heart.
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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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Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
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