Hannah More Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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.

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  Mistake, Lying, Exercise

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

• No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

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  Flattery, Virtue, Court

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.342

• To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

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  Royalty, Virtue, Manners

• Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

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  School, Character, Affliction

  Hannah More (1812). “Practical piety...”, p.206

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