Hannah More Quotes
Hannah More was an English religious writer, moral philosopher, and educational reformer of the late Georgian era, the most widely read English moral author of her time, and a central figure of the Clapham Sect of evangelical reformers. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education and her Cheap Repository Tracts argued for a serious moral and religious education for women across classes, in which intellectual cultivation is the handmaid, not the rival, of practical Christian virtue. The quotes below are attributed to Hannah More, organized by topic.
Hannah More on God
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Attributed to Hannah More:
“Christianity is the religion not of speculation but of life.”
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“The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!”
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“... There's a joy, To the fond votaries of fame unknown, To hear the still small voice of conscience speak In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul.”
David and Goliath , Pt. I
Hannah More on Justice
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Attributed to Hannah More:
“Slavery is a stain that no profession of liberty will wash from the empire that practices it.”
Hannah More on Knowledge
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Attributed to Hannah More:
“A woman's understanding cannot be schooled by trinkets.”
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“A crown! what is it?”
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“David and Goliath , Pt. I”
... There's a joy, To the fond votaries of fame unknown, To hear the still small voice of conscience speak In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul. -
“To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!”
Sensibility -
“Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.”
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“In men this blunder still you find,— All think their little set mankind.”
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“Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.”
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“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.”
Essays on Various Subjects -
“Essays on Various Subjects”
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 on Virtue
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Attributed to Hannah More:
“True education forms the heart before the mind, and trains the affections to the love of what is good.”
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Attributed to Hannah More:
“We do not need cleverness in our daughters; we need character.”