Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
Hannah More
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Hannah More
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah More
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Hannah More
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Hannah More
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.
Hannah More
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
Hannah More
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
Hannah More
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More
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.
Hannah More
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Type:
Writer
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
1833
Nationality:
English |
