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Hannah More Quotes
«My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.»
«Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.»
«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.»
Author: Hannah More
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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.»
«Goals help you overcome short-term problems.»
Author: Hannah More
«Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.»
Author: Hannah More
«Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.»
Author: Hannah More
«Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.»
Author: Hannah More
«Small habits, well pursued betimes,May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)»
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