Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.
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.
- Hannah More
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible. - Hannah More
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.
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…
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.
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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