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Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

Hannah More

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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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Essayist
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It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.
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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 I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
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