Hannah More
Hannah More
Hannah Morewas an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1745
mistake youth penetration
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
formidable seems reformation
All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.
our-words deeds crime
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.
vanity faults littles
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
time may fetch
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.
mistake thinking practice
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.
humble sleep pride
Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.
ubiquity support nerves
The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.
forgiveness forgiving expenses
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
spring half misery
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
luxury storm poverty
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
flattery virtue court
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
envy spirit cold
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
time might expenses
It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.