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Hannah More Quotes about Imagination

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To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

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Imagination, Criticism, Faults
Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.354

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

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Imagination, Depth, Eternity
Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.593

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

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Pain, Imagination, Reign
Hannah More (1803). “The Works of Hannah More, in Four Volumes: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published”, p.87

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

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Imagination, Events, Shapes
Hannah More (1838). “The Poetical Works of Hannah More”, p.73

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

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Practice, Imagination, May
Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.175

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