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Never test the depth of a river with both feet.

- Warren Buffett

Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

- Hannah More

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

- Hannah More

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

- Hannah More

The soul on Earth is an immortal guest.

- Hannah More

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

- Hannah More

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

- Hannah More

Sow an action, reap a habit.

- Hannah More

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

- Hannah More

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

- Hannah More

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

- Hannah More

Love never reasons but profusely gives... gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little.

- Hannah More

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

- Hannah More

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.

- Hannah More

If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.

- Hannah More

How short is human life! The very breath which frames my words accelerates my death.

- Hannah More

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

- Hannah More

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

- Hannah More

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

- Hannah More

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

- Hannah More