Hannah More

Hannah More in 1821

Blue Plaque on the wall of Keepers Cottage, Brislington

Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist.

Quotes

• The keen spirit
  Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
  Start into instant action, and at once
  Plans and performs, resolves and executes!
  • Daniel

• A crown! what is it?

It is to bear the miseries of a people!

To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents,

And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

• Daniel, Pt. VI

•   ...   There's a joy,
  To the fond votaries of fame unknown,
  To hear the still small voice of conscience speak
  In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul.
  • David and Goliath, Pt. I

• 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, Pt. I

• Small habits well pursued betimes
  May reach the dignity of crimes.
  • Florio, Pt. I

• That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.
  • Essays on Various Subjects