01UndatedLord, I submit. Complete Thy gracious will, For, if Thou slay me, I will trust Thee still. O, be my will so swallowed up in Thine, That I may do Thy will, in doing mine?Hannah More / quote ↗
02UndatedWhen did wisdom covet length of days? Or seek its bliss in pleasure, wealth, or praise? No:—wisdom views with an indifferent eye All finite things, as blessings born to die.Hannah More / quote ↗
03UndatedSo woman, born to dignify retreat Unknown to flourish, and unseen be great, To give domestic life its sweetest charm, With softness polish, and with virtue warm: Fearful of fame, unwilling to be known, Should seek but Heaven’s applauses and her own; Should dread no blame but that which crimes impart, The censures of a self-condemning heart.Hannah More / quote ↗
04UndatedIf faith produce no works; I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they e’er can know: They’re soul and body, hand and heart,— What God hath joined, let no man part.Hannah More / quote ↗
05UndatedAbsence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.Hannah More / quote ↗
07UndatedOur infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor his infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.Hannah More / quote ↗
08UndatedNo adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.Hannah More / quote ↗
09UndatedSweet sensibility! thou keen delight! Unprompted moral! sudden sense of right!Hannah More / quote ↗
10UndatedNothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.Hannah More / quote ↗
11UndatedI call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife. I call education not that which is made up of the shreds and patches of useless arts, but that which inculcates principles, polishes taste, regulates temper, cultivates reason, subdues the passions, directs the feelings, habituates to reflection, trains to self-denial, and, more especially, that which refers all actions, feelings, sentiments, tastes, and passions, to the love and fear of God.Hannah More / quote ↗
12UndatedOne kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More / quote ↗
13UndatedForgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.Hannah More / quote ↗
14UndatedForgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.Hannah More / quote ↗
15UndatedJust at that moment, Lucilla happened to cross the lawn at a distance. At sight of her, I could not, as I pointed to her, forbear exclaiming in the words of Sir John's favorite poet,There doth beauty dwell,There most conspicuous, e'en in outward shape,Where dawns the high expression of a mind."This is very fine," said Sir John, sarcastically. "I admire all you young enthusiastic philosophers, with your intellectual refinement. You pretend to be captivated only with _mind_. I observe, however, that previous to your raptures, you always take care to get this mind lodged in a fair and youthful form. This mental beauty is always prudently enshrined in some elegant corporeal frame, before it is worshiped. I should be glad to see some of these intellectual adorers in love with the mind of an old or ugly woman. I never heard any of you fall into ecstasies in descanting on the mind of your grandmother.Hannah More / quote ↗
16UndatedI did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation.Hannah More / quote ↗
17UndatedIt should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.Hannah More / quote ↗
18UndatedIf the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.Hannah More / quote ↗
19UndatedIn grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?Hannah More / quote ↗
20UndatedObstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.Hannah More / quote ↗
21UndatedImagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.Hannah More / quote ↗
22UndatedGoing to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.Hannah More / quote ↗
23UndatedPrayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.Hannah More / quote ↗
