Hannah More

English writer and philanthropist (1745-1833)

Hannah Morewas an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, who wrote on moral and religious subjects. Born in Bristol, she taught at a school her father founded there and began writing plays.

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About the Hannah More

Hannah Morewas an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, who wrote on moral and religious subjects. Born in Bristol, she taught at a school her father founded there and began writing plays. She became involved in the London literary elite and a leading Bluestocking member. Her later plays and poetry became more evangelical. She joined a group opposing the slave trade. In the 1790s she wrote Cheap Repository Tracts on moral, religious and political topics, to distribute to the literate poor (as a retort to Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man). Meanwhile, she broadened her links with schools she and her sister Martha had founded in rural Somerset. These curbed their teaching of the poor, allowing limited reading but no writing. More was noted for her political conservatism, being described as an anti-feminist, a “counter-revolutionary”, or a conservative feminist.

10 Quotes by Hannah More

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    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 and philanthropist (1745-1833)

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    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 and philanthropist (1745-1833)

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    Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

    Hannah More

    English writer and philanthropist (1745-1833)

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    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 and philanthropist (1745-1833)

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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 and philanthropist (1745-1833)

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    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 and philanthropist (1745-1833)

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    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 and philanthropist (1745-1833)

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    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 and philanthropist (1745-1833)

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    Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

    Hannah More

    English writer and philanthropist (1745-1833)

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    Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

    Hannah More

    English writer and philanthropist (1745-1833)