Hannah More quotes

" Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. " # Obstacles # Goals # Action

" Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. " # Love # Men and Women # Arts and Artists

" 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. " # Knowledge # Learning # Friends and Friendship

" Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. " # Discretion

" The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. " # Education # Books - Reading # Fatigue

" If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part. " # Faith # Life and Living # Writers and Writing

" Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. " # Genius # Freedom # Power

" Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. " # Idleness # Children # Temper

" Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. " # Luxury # Poverty and The Poor # Age and Aging

" My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety. " # School # Fanatics and Fanaticism # Writers and Writing