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
heart men giving
People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.
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.
men class discrimination
the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.
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.
men thinking littles
In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
children men roots
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
christian men bed
No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.
god desire gift-from-god
All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.
mother grateful heart
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother ...
crime-and-criminals crimes dignity pursued reach small
Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
funny women memorable
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
expectations desire possession
Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.
desire want forget
Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.