Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. Hannah More More Quotes by Hannah More More Quotes From Hannah More My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it. Hannah More retirement character believe The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart. Hannah More injury hearing heart 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. Hannah More eye christian evil Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. Hannah More affliction moral exercise To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. Hannah More royalty virtue manners A crown! what is it? Hannah More kings bears people the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. Hannah More variables speech silence To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone. Hannah More faults criticism imagination The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil. Hannah More abuse language evil A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed. Hannah More imagination practice 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. Hannah More opposites numbers character All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God. Hannah More gift-from-god god desire Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long. Hannah More friends pay long Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification. Hannah More fashion evil opposites Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious. Hannah More envy violent-acts may It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread. Hannah More tasks hard-work people Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it. Hannah More possession expectations desire Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing. Hannah More want desire forget People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart. Hannah More heart men people 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. Hannah More understanding practice sound
