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Hannah More Quotes
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February 2, 1745 - September 7, 1833
Nationality: English
Category: Writer
Subcategory: English Writer
|  Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. | | Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. | | If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part. | | Goals help you overcome short-term problems. | | Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. | | Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. | | Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. | | Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. | | The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. | | Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. |
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