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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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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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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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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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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.
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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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Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.
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In men this blunder still you find all think their little set mankind.
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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 modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.
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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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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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The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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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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Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
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Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
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Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children He chastens them in love He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.
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It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.
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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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