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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
Abolitionist
Essayist
Philanthropist
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Rage is for little wrongs despair is dumb.
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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The soul on earth is an immortal guest.
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In men this blunder still you find all think their little set mankind.
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Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.
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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
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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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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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The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
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It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.
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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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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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I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.
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We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch in the family, our tempers and in company, our tongues.
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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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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
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