Hannah More Quotes on Knowledge
Hannah More (1745–1833), the English evangelical and educational reformer, gave late-eighteenth-century Christian moral philosophy its principal popular voice in works such as Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) and Cœlebs in Search of a Wife (1808). The framework defends a substantive but disciplined cultivation of female intellect — knowledge as the formation of moral character under scriptural authority, against both fashionable accomplishment and the radical egalitarianism of Wollstonecraft. The Cheap Repository Tracts she wrote and organized for mass circulation among the labouring poor anticipated nineteenth-century mass-literacy and self-improvement literature.
Quotes
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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:
“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.”
Sensibility -
“In men this blunder still you find,— All think their little set mankind.”
Florio , Pt. I -
“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.”
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“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.