162 Quotes by Hannah More

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

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.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

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.

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

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!