Hannah More Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• 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.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Book, Reading

• My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

  Hannah More

  Writing, Simple, Class

  Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.224

• Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

  Hannah More

  May, Dignity, Crime

  'Florio' (1786) pt. 1, l. 77

• Sow an action, reap a habit.

  Hannah More

  Action, Habit, Reap

• Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

  Hannah More

  Violent Acts, Envy, May

  Hannah More (1834). “The works of Hannah More, with a memoir and notes”, p.291

• 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.

  Hannah More

  Long, Action, Common

  Hannah More (1809). “Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education: With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune”

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