What did Hannah More mean by: To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. Hannah More Copy
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah More, Improvement, Literature, Morality, 0 Hannah More
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah More, Emotion, Imagination, Pain, 0 Hannah More
Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah More, Heart, Sin, Temptation, 0 Hannah More
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah More, Jealousy, Recognition, Temperament, 0 Hannah More
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah More, Consequences, Habits, Progression, 0 Hannah More
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah More, Comfort, Peace, Simplicity, 0 Hannah More
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah More, Alcoholism, Guilt, Sin, 0 Hannah More
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah More, Punishment, Redemption, Sin, 0 Hannah More
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France