Hannah More Quotes
An English religious writer and philanthropist.
(1745 - 1833)
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A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
[Forgiveness]
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A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.
[Trifles]
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A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
[Applause]
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A sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action. It is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies and providing against them; it is expecting contingencies and being prepared for them.
[Economy]
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Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
[Absence]
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Adulation is the death of virtue. - Who flatters, is, of all mankind, the lowest, save he who courts the flattery.
[Flattery]
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Christian beneficence takes a large sweep; that circumference cannot be small of which God is the centre.
[Beneficence]
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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Fell luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
[Forgiveness]
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
[Genius]
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.
[Music]
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How goodness heightens beauty!
[Beauty]
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
[Idleness]
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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.
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If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
[Hatred]
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If the one be good, the other must be evil. The only way to justify the stage, as it is, as it has ever been, as it is ever likely to be, is to condemn the Bible - the same individual cannot defend both.
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Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears, creates.
[Imagination]
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In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. - The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
[Atheism]
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