Hannah More Quotes About Evil

• There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

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  Two, Evil, World

• La ociosidad entre los niños, como entre los hombres, es la raíz de todos los males, y no conduce a otro mal más cierto que el mal genio.

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  Children, Men, Roots

• Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

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  Evil, May, Laziness

  Hannah More (1857). “Complete Works”, p.332

• Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

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  Evil, Forgiving, Resentment

  Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.272

• Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.

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  Fashion, Opposites, Evil

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.355

• it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.

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  Character, Opposites, Numbers

  Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More: Structures on modern system of female education”, p.7

• The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.

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  Evil, Abuse, Language

  Hannah More (1853). “The Works of Hannah More: Hints towards forming the character of a young princess”, p.319

• Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

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  Two, Evil, May

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.474

• Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

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  Long, Evil, Done

• Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

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  Christian, Eye, Evil

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.336

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