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Hannah More Quotes about Exercise

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We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

Hannah More
Mistake, Lying, Exercise
Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.447

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

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Exercise, Affliction, Moral
Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.770

It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.

Hannah More
Exercise, Meditation, Return
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 406, 1895.

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