Hannah More Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

  Hannah More

  Mistake, Lying, Exercise

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.447

• Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

  Hannah More

  Mistake, Youth, Penetration

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.360

• parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

  Hannah More

  Mistake, Parent, Genius

  Hannah More, Coelebs (pseud.) (1809). “Cœlebs in search of a wife [by H. More].”, p.238

• nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.

  Hannah More

  Mistake, Thinking, Practice

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.365

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