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
action spirit resolve
The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!
christian roots inward
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.
luxury storm poverty
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
paint thee knows
To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
religious natural-talent use
It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.
flattery virtue court
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
spring half misery
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
thinking may bread
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.
two evil world
There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.
forgiveness forgiving expenses
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
lying heart temptation
Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.
silence oblivion offspring
oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
eye self vision
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.
religious memories heart
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.