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If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

Coelebs in Search of a Wife

Just at that moment, Lucilla happened to cross the lawn at a distance. At sight of her, I could not,...

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In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it ...

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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...

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Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a ...

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred,...

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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...

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Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears cre...

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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...

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Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is ad...

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I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to cons...

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Hannah More

Writer

Born: 1745-02-02

Died: 1833-09-07

Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist.More