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Hannah More
Total Quotes 141
Parents Are Too Apt To Mistake Inclination For Genius.
Mistake
Parent
Genius
If A Young Lady Has That Discretion And Modesty Without Which All Knowledge Is Little Worth, She Will Never Make An Ostentatious Parade Of It, Because She Will Rather Be Intent On Acquiring More Than On Displaying What She Has.
Littles
Modesty
Parades
Imagination Frames Events Unknown, In Wild, Fantastic Shapes Of Hideous Ruin, And What It Fears Creates.
Imagination
Events
Shapes
Who Are Those Ever Multiplying Authors That With Unparalleled Fecundity Are Overstocking The World With Their Quick Succeeding Progeny? They Are Novel-writers.
World
Succeed
Novel
There Is One Single Fact That One May Oppose To All The Wit And Argument Of Infidelity; Namely, That No Man Ever Repented Of Being A Christian On His Death-bed.
Christian
Men
Infidelity
Commending A Right Thing Is A Cheap Substitute For Doing It, With Which We Are Too Apt To Satisfy Ourselves.
Praise
Substitutes
Right Thing
Pleasure Is By Much The Most Laborious Trade I Know, Especially For Those Who Have Not A Vocation To It.
Pleasure
Vocation
Trade
Names Govern The World.
Names
World
A Corrupt Practice May Be Abolished, But A Soiled Imagination Is Not Easily Cleansed.
Practice
Imagination
May
It Is The Modern Nature Of Goodness To Exert Itself Quietly, While A Few Characters Of The Opposite Cast Seem, By The Rumor Of Their Exploits, To Fill The World; And By Their Noise To Multiply Their Numbers.
Character
Opposites
Numbers
The Modes Of Speech Are Scarcely More Variable Than The Modes Of Silence.
Silence
Variables
Speech
Indeed, I Have, Alas! Outlived Almost Every One Of My Contemporaries. One Pays Dear For Living Long.
Friends
Long
Pay
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.
Fashion
Opposites
Evil
Anger Is A Violent Act, Envy A Constant Habit - No One Can Be Always Angry, But He May Be Always Envious.
Violent Acts
Envy
May
When These Incorrigible Talkers Are Compelled To Be Quiet, Is It Not Evident That They Are Not Silent Because They Are Listening To What Is Said, But Because They Are Thinking Of What They Themselves Shall Say When They Can Seize The First Lucky Interval, For Which They Are So Narrowly Watching?
Thinking
Talking
Listening
It Is A Sober Truth That People Who Live Only To Amuse Themselves Work Harder At The Task Than Most People Do In Earning Their Daily Bread.
Hard Work
People
Tasks
Oblivion Has Been Noticed As The Offspring Of Silence.
Silence
Oblivion
Offspring
The Keen Spirit Seizes The Prompt Occasion, Makes The Thought Start Into Instant Action, And At Once Plans And Performs, Resolves And Executes!
Spirit
Action
Resolve
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.
Our Words
Deeds
Crime
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.
Prayer
Book
Reading
Youth Has A Quickness Of Apprehension, Which It Is Very Apt To Mistake For An Acuteness Of Penetration.
Mistake
Youth
Penetration
Resentment Is An Evil So Costly To Our Peace That We Should Find It More Cheap To Forgive Even Were It No More Right.
Evil
Forgiving
Resentment
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.
Two
Evil
May
There Is Scarcely Any Fault In Another Which Offends Us More Than Vanity, Though Perhaps There Is None That Really Injures Us So Little.
Vanity
Littles
Faults
Born: February 2, 1745
Died: September 7, 1833
Occupation: Writer
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