he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour. Hannah More More Quotes by Hannah More More Quotes From Hannah More A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat. Hannah More defeat ends inspirational In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God. Hannah More agony atheist mind Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely. Hannah More glowing color ideas it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us. Hannah More vision eye self eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. Hannah More depth eternity imagination We have employments 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. Hannah More employment watches life we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice. Hannah More sacrifice age feelings The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Hannah More parent sea home If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Hannah More produce ifs tree The soul on earth is an immortal guest. Hannah More guests soul earth Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness. Hannah More compunction eloquence prayer 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. Hannah More suffering father children How short is human life! the very breath Hannah More human-life humans death Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty. Hannah More anger character people Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. Hannah More roots men children Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains. Hannah More reign pain imagination A small unkindness is a great offence. Hannah More offence unkindness kindness To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint! Hannah More paint thee knows Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity. Hannah More gentleness The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. Hannah More comfort spring littles
