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Quotes by Hannah Moore

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

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”

“Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes”

“When thou has truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament”

“One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.”

“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. Theyre soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.”

“There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed”

“Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.”

“I believe she would be jealous of a fine day, if her husband praised it”

“The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible”

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.