Hannah More
Hannah More was an English religious writer and philanthropist.
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- The keen spirit
Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
Start into instant action, and at once
Plans and performs, resolves and executes!- Daniel.
- To those who know thee not, no words can paint!
And those who know thee, know all words are faint!- Sensibility.
- Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.- Sensibility.
- In men this blunder still you find,—
All think their little set mankind.- Florio, Part i.
- Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes.- Florio, Part i.
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- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
- Also attributed to Henry Ford.