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
hard-work people tasks
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
practice imagination may
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
long action common
Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.
evil abuse language
The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
time sick suffering
He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others may find an eternity in which to suffer for himself.
faith heart men
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.
friends long pay
Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.
fashion opposites evil
Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.
imagination depth eternity
eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.
sacrifice feelings age
we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.
men thinking littles
In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
love fire water
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
pain imagination reign
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.
kindness offence unkindness
A small unkindness is a great offence.