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The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.
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Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.
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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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Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
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Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.
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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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The soul on earth is an immortal guest.
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Names govern the world.
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Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
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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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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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Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
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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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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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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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To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
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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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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 misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.
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