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HANNAH MORE
English writer
(1745 - 1833)
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Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.
      - [Selfishness]

Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.
      - [Suffering]

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; whilst an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.
      - [Trouble]

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.
      - [Heaven]

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.
      - [Discretion]

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul.
      - [Prayer]

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.
      - [Economy]

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.
      - [Despair]

Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.
      - [Sensibility]

So weak is man, so ignorant and blind, that did not God sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, we should be ruined at our own request.
      - [Man]

Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.
      - [Economy]

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.
      - [Praise]

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
      - [Repartee]

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.
      - [Education]

The habitual indulgence in such reading is a silent, mining mischief.
      - [Novels]

The keen spirit
  Seizes the prompt occasion--makes the thought
    Start into instant action, and at once
      Plans and performs, resolves and executes.
      - [Acuteness : Decision : Promptness]

The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.
      - [Devotion]

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
      - [Domesticity]

The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
  Compelled to starve at an unreal feast:
    A spark, which upward tends by nature's force:
      A stream diverted from its parent source;
        A drop dissever'd from the boundless sea;
          A moment, parted from eternity;
            A pilgrim panting for the rest to come;
              An exile, anxious for his native home.
      - [Soul]

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.
      - [Evil]

There is one single fact, which 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.
      - [Infidelity]

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
      - [Manners]

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.
      - [Duty]

We have employment assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.
      - [Employment]

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
      - [Martyrs]


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