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

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  May, Dignity, Crime

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

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• Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

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  Spring, Half, Misery

  Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.338

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• A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

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  Inspirational, Defeat, Ends

  Hannah More (1836). “The Words of Hannah More ...”, p.181

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• Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

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  Glowing, Color, Ideas

  Hannah More (1830). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.52

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• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

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  Tree, Produce, Ifs

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.223

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• It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

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  Hard Work, People, Tasks

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• In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

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  Atheist, Agony, Mind

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• he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

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  Time, Fetch, May

  Hannah More (1835). “Works, Complete”, p.290

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• it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.

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  Eye, Self, Vision

  Hannah More (1843). “Works, Complete”, p.183

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• The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

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  Rose, Long, Lasts

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.342

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• To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

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  Imagination, Criticism, Faults

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.354

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• 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.

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  Practice, Understanding, Sound

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• we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.

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  Revenge, Enemy, Looks

  Hannah More (1811). “Practical piety, or, The influence of religion of the heart on the conduct of the life”, p.199

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• Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

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  Exercise, Affliction, Moral

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.770

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• Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

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  Evil, May, Laziness

  Hannah More (1857). “Complete Works”, p.332

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• Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

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  Christian, Eye, Evil

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.336

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• Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

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  Expectations, Desire, Possession

  Hannah More, Coelebs (pseud.) (1809). “Cœlebs in search of a wife [by H. More].”, p.394

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• Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

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  Wisdom, Eye, Blessing

  Hannah More (1827). “The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life”, p.112

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• Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

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  Anger, Character, People

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.106

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• Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

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  Long, Evil, Done

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• In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?

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  Fear, Grief, Ends

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.121

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• 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.

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  Mother, Grateful, Heart

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.390

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• Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

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  Integrity, Secret, Tests

  Hannah More (1838). “Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. Comprehending observations on domestic habits and manners, religion and morals ... With a memoir of the author”, p.253

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• 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.

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  Heart, Men, People

  Hannah More (1857). “Complete Works”, p.490

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• Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

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  Perfect, Heaven, Joy

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