nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible. - Hannah More
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.
- Hannah More
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 o… - Hannah More
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 o…
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little. - Hannah More
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. - Hannah More
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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 inha… - Hannah More
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 inha…
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion. - Hannah More
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. - Hannah More
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Sow an action, reap a habit. - Hannah More
Sow an action, reap a habit.
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. - Hannah More
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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