Hannah More

Who was Hannah More?

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 poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist.

Famous Quotes:

• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
• The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
• Genius 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.
• It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
• My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
• How goodness heightens beauty!
• Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.