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Hannah More
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Hannah More,
English
Writer
#Sin
#Punishment
#Opera
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.
Hannah More,
English
Writer
#May
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More,
English
Writer
#Youth
#Poverty
#Storms
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
Hannah More,
English
Writer
#Love
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Hannah More,
English
Writer
#Duty
#Discretion
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Hannah More,
English
Writer
#Children
#Evil
#Men
#Temper
#Idleness
Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
Hannah More,
English
Writer
#Problems
#Goals
#Help
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.
Hannah More,
English
Writer
#May
#Darkness
#Light
#Religion
#Genius
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More,
English
Writer
#Heart
#Anger
#Spirits
#Waste
#Forgiveness
#Hatred
#Economy
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.
Hannah More,
English
Writer
#Life
#God
#Heart
#Man
#Faith
#Living
#Soul
#Body