poet quotes

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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

- Ovid

Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

- Hannah More

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

- Hannah More

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

- Hannah More

The soul on Earth is an immortal guest.

- Hannah More

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

- Hannah More

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

- Hannah More

Sow an action, reap a habit.

- Hannah More

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

- Hannah More

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

- Hannah More

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

- Hannah More

Love never reasons but profusely gives... gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little.

- Hannah More

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

- Hannah More

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

- Hannah More

If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.

- Hannah More

How short is human life! The very breath which frames my words accelerates my death.

- Hannah More

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

- Hannah More

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

- Hannah More

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

- Hannah More

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

- Hannah More

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

- Hannah More

A small unkindness is a great offence.

- Hannah More

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perserverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

- William Blake

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

- Theophile Gautier

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals.

- Theophile Gautier

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

- Theophile Gautier