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
self deception self-deception
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.
eye self vision
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.
silence oblivion offspring
oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
forgiveness forgiving expenses
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
religious natural-talent use
It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.
action habit reap
Sow an action, reap a habit.
heart luxury vices
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices
fancy bears martyr
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
integrity secret tests
Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.
spring half misery
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
evil laziness may
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
evil forgiving resentment
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
duty interfere discretion
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
prayer sometimes mercy
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.