Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
Hannah More... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.
Hannah MoreSince trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Hannah MoreGenius 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.
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