| 17 Famous Quotes by Hannah More
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“Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Florio (pt. I)
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“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.”
Unkindness Quotes Source: Sensibility
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“He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's graces
By plucking bon-mots from their places.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Florio, the Bas Blue
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“No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who courts the flattery.”
Flattery Quotes Source: Daniel
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“Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.”
Luxury Quotes Source: Belshazzar
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“Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are,
and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart,
enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.”
Luxury Quotes Source: Essays--Dissipation
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“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its
necessities.”
Luxury Quotes Source: Essays--Dissipation
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“A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To bear the miseries of a people!
And sink beneath a load of splendid care!”
Royalty Quotes Source: Daniel (pt. VI)
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“Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.”
Habit Quotes Source: Florio (pt. I)
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“Sow an action, reap a habit.”
Habit Quotes Source: Florio (pt. I)
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“In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.”
Conceit Quotes Source: Florio (pt. I)
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“O jealousy,
Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom
Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue
Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness,
And drinks my spirit up!”
Jealousy Quotes Source: David and Goliath (pt. V)
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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
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“Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.”
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“Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.”
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“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
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“There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.”
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Hannah More Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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