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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. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.
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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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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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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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When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
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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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we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
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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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Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.
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The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.
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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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The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
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The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.
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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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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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