The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted
Hannah More quote To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue
Hannah More quote There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile
Hannah More quote We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us
Hannah More quote We have employment assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues
Hannah More quote Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices
Hannah More quote 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 quote To those who know thee not, no words can paint;
And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
Hannah More quote Biography
English writer, 1745 - 1833
