Top 100 Hannah More Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Goals help you overcome short-term problems.”

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52. “There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.”

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53. “The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.”

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54. “In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?”

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55. “Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.”

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56. “Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit – no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious...”

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57. “No adulation; ’tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.”

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58. “It’s cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit.”

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59. “Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.”

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60. “Names govern the world.”

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61. “Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.”

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62. “It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.”

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63. “Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers...”

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64. “Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.”

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65. “When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.”

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66. “We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.”

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67. “Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!”

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68. “Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.”

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69. “Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.”

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70. “Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?”

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71. “It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.”

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72. “Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.”

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73. “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 deathbed.”

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74. “To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone...”

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75. “The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.”

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76. “There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.”

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77. “Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.”

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78. “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.”

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79. “Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.”

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80. “Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.”

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81. “I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.”

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82. “A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.”

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83. “The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.”

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84. “Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.”

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85. “Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.”

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86. “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.”

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87. “We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.”

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88. “Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.”

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89. “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.”

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90. “In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.”

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91. “If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.”

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

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93. “Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.”

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94. “Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.”

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95. “We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.”

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96. “Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.”

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97. “It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.”

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98. “The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.”

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99. “The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.”

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100. “When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.”

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