15 Quotations by Hannah More
- 1. Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
- 2. Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
- 3. Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o ...
- 4. Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
- 5. How goodness heightens beauty!
- 6. Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert ...
- 7. If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow ...
- 8. It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate wh ...
- 9. Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem ...
- 10. Luxury: more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
- 11. My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on weekdays, such coarse works a ...
- 12. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- 13. One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...
- 14. The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of ...
- 15. The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than ...
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