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 More Quotes by Hannah More More Quotes From Hannah More Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. Hannah More soul prayer feelings Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Hannah More heartbroken forgiveness anger Sow an action, reap a habit. Hannah More reap habit action That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it Hannah More women silence art The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure. Hannah More religious heart memories No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed. Hannah More bed christian men We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us. Hannah More exercise mistake lying One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. Hannah More ocean helping-others thinking The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded. Hannah More doe world We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute. Hannah More religious heart memories Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee. Hannah More space time art If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody. Hannah More hate should enemy When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. Hannah More martyr fancy bears It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know. Hannah More appreciate important knowledge Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart. Hannah More reflection heart men What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower. Hannah More prayer blessing rain Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give. Hannah More merit sweet giving Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. Hannah More luxury storm poverty Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. Hannah More fire love water When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. Hannah More gratitude blessing littles
