18 Hannah More Quotes

Hannah More quotes

1. The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

2. To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

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

4. In men this blunder still you find,- All think their little set mankind.

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

6. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

1. There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

2. There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his deathbed.

3. 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.

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

5. Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.

6. All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

7. He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

8. We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute.

9. A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

10. A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

11. The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

12. If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.