Hannah More
English writer, philanthropist and religious author, 1745-1833
13 quotes.
Quotes by Hannah More
- A small unkindness is a great offence.
- If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
- It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
- Life is a short day, but it is a working day.
- Life is a short day; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lead to good.
- Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.
- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
- Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.
- Real goodness proves itself to be such by a continual desire to be better.
- The achievement of a hard duty is a great abolisher of difficulties.
- The world does not require so much to be informed as reminded.
- 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.