Hannah More Quotes

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.

Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.

Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation.