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Hannah More


Born
in Fishponds, Bristol, The United Kingdom
February 02, 1745

Died
September 07, 1833


Hannah More was an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a clever verse-writer and witty talker in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects on the Puritanic side, and as a practical philanthropist.

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“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
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“Love never reasons but profusely gives......gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little. ”
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“Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?”
― Hannah More
tags: curse, indolence, nothing, plague, vice, worse
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