Hannah More
Hannah More
Hannah Morewas an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1745
Hannah More quotes about
color ideas glowing
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.
heart men reflection
Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.
christian men infidelity
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his deathbed.
love giving done
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little....
atheist agony mind
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
forgiveness jesus forgiving
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.
heart luxury temptation
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.
thinking meditation humanity
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.
evil laziness may
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
prayer sometimes mercy
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
imagination shapes ruins
Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
hate hatred enemy
If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
prayer book reading
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.
inspirational defeat endeavor
A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.