List of Hannah More Quotes

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Hannah More
Total Quotes 141
Parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.
Mistake Parent Genius
If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.
Littles Modesty Parades
Imagination frames events unknown, in wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, and what it fears creates.
Imagination Events Shapes
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? they are novel-writers.
World Succeed Novel
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a christian on his death-bed.
Christian Men Infidelity
Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
Praise Substitutes Right Thing
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade i know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
Pleasure Vocation Trade
Names govern the world.
Names World
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
Practice Imagination May
It is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.
Character Opposites Numbers
The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
Silence Variables Speech
Indeed, i have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. one pays dear for living long.
Friends Long Pay
  • Born: February 2, 1745
  • Died: September 7, 1833
  • Occupation: Writer
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