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
paint thee knows
To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
doe world
The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.
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.
prayer book reading
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.
hate hatred enemy
If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
imagination shapes ruins
Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
envy spirit cold
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
pain addiction strange
Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
taken sin guilty
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only ...
anger character giving
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.
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.
mistake parent genius
parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.
silence speech variables
the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.