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Breaking the law1 quote
For you'll ne'er mend your fortunes, nor help the just cause,
By breaking of windows, or breaking of laws. — Hannah More · 1817Diligence1 quote
Whether we consider the manual industry of the poor, or the intellectual exertions of the superior classes, we shall find that diligent occupation, if not criminally perverted from its end, is at once the instrument of virtue and the secret of happiness. Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure. — Hannah More · 1813Fighting for justice1 quote
For you'll ne'er mend your fortunes, nor help the just cause,
By breaking of windows, or breaking of laws. — Hannah More · 1817Gender relations1 quote
It is humbling to reflect, that in those countries in which the fondness for the mere persons of women is carried to the highest excess, they are slaves; and that their moral and intellectual degradation increases in direct proportion to the adoration which is paid to mere external charms. — Hannah More · 1799Grief1 quote
I do not know why the necessity of God
Should feed on grief; but it seems so. — Christopher Fry · 1946Hard work1 quote
Whether we consider the manual industry of the poor, or the intellectual exertions of the superior classes, we shall find that diligent occupation, if not criminally perverted from its end, is at once the instrument of virtue and the secret of happiness. Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure. — Hannah More · 1813Human nature1 quote
Is it not a fundamental error to consider children as innocent beings, whose little weaknesses may perhaps want some correction, rather than as beings who bring into the world a corrupt nature and evil dispositions, which it should be the great end of education to rectify? — Hannah More · 1799Idleness1 quote
Whether we consider the manual industry of the poor, or the intellectual exertions of the superior classes, we shall find that diligent occupation, if not criminally perverted from its end, is at once the instrument of virtue and the secret of happiness. Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure. — Hannah More · 1813Law1 quote
For you'll ne'er mend your fortunes, nor help the just cause,
By breaking of windows, or breaking of laws. — Hannah More · 1817Leisure1 quote
Whether we consider the manual industry of the poor, or the intellectual exertions of the superior classes, we shall find that diligent occupation, if not criminally perverted from its end, is at once the instrument of virtue and the secret of happiness. Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure. — Hannah More · 1813Man and nature1 quote
There is no land unhabitable nor sea innavigable. — Robert Thorne · 1589Need of God1 quote
I do not know why the necessity of God
Should feed on grief; but it seems so. — Christopher Fry · 1946Oppression of women1 quote
It is humbling to reflect, that in those countries in which the fondness for the mere persons of women is carried to the highest excess, they are slaves; and that their moral and intellectual degradation increases in direct proportion to the adoration which is paid to mere external charms. — Hannah More · 1799Original sin1 quote
Is it not a fundamental error to consider children as innocent beings, whose little weaknesses may perhaps want some correction, rather than as beings who bring into the world a corrupt nature and evil dispositions, which it should be the great end of education to rectify? — Hannah More · 1799Patriarchy1 quote
It is humbling to reflect, that in those countries in which the fondness for the mere persons of women is carried to the highest excess, they are slaves; and that their moral and intellectual degradation increases in direct proportion to the adoration which is paid to mere external charms. — Hannah More · 1799Poetry1 quote
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. — Christopher Fry · 1950The earth1 quote
There is no land unhabitable nor sea innavigable. — Robert Thorne · 1589The sky1 quote
Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue. — Robert Southey · 1805The world1 quote
There is no land unhabitable nor sea innavigable. — Robert Thorne · 1589War1 quote
Now tell us all about the war,
And what they kill'd each other for. — Robert Southey · 1805War stories1 quote
Now tell us all about the war,
And what they kill'd each other for. — Robert Southey · 1805