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
fashion opposites evil
Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.
friends long pay
Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.
god desire gift-from-god
All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.
long action common
Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.
practice imagination may
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
evil abuse language
The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
succeed world novel
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers ...
two evil may
Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.
mistake youth penetration
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
trials sober rich
... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.
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.
tree produce ifs
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.
soul guests earth
The soul on earth is an immortal guest.