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Hannah More Quotes about Character

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Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Hannah More
School, Character, Affliction
Hannah More (1812). “Practical piety...”, p.206

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

Hannah More
Education, Character, Race
Hannah More (1810). “Cœlebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals”, p.14

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

Hannah More
Anger, Character, People
Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.106

it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.

Hannah More
Character, Opposites, Numbers
Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More: Structures on modern system of female education”, p.7

My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it.

Hannah More
Retirement, Believe, Character
Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.390

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