Hannah More Quotes about Evil

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Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

Hannah More

Evil, May, Laziness

Hannah More (1857). “Complete Works”, p.332

Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

Hannah More

Christian, Eye, Evil

William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.336

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

Hannah More

Long, Evil, Done

Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.

Hannah More

Fashion, Opposites, Evil

Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.355

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

Hannah More

Evil, Forgiving, Resentment

Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.272

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

Hannah More

Two, Evil, World

Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

Hannah More

Two, Evil, May

Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.474