Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
Hannah Morenothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.
Hannah MoreIdleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Hannah MoreThe sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
Hannah MoreForgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah MoreNothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.
Hannah More