we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible. - Hannah More
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.
- 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… - 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…
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.
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.
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion. - Hannah More
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.
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…
Sow an action, reap a habit. - Hannah More
Sow an action, reap a habit.
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.
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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