Hannah More
Writer
1745-02-02
Quotes by Hannah More
-
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. I call education not that which is made up of the shreds and patches of useless arts, but that which inculcates principles, polishes taste, regulates temper, cultivates reason, subdues the passions, directs the feelings, habituates to reflection, trains to self-denial, and, more especially, that which refers all actions, feelings, sentiments, tastes, and passions, to the love and fear of God.
Read quote -
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. I call education not that which is made up of the shreds and patches of useless arts, but that which inculcates principles, polishes taste, regulates temper, cultivates reason, subdues the passions, directs the feelings, habituates to reflection, trains to self-denial, and, more especially, that which refers all actions, feelings, sentiments, tastes, and passions, to the love and fear of God.
Read quote -
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Read quote -
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Read quote -
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
Read quote -
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster.
Read quote -
How goodness heightens beauty!
Read quote -
Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
Read quote -
Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
Read quote -
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
Read quote -
In men this blunder still you find,- All think their little set mankind.
Read quote -
Trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Read quote