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Hannah More est une femme de lettres britannique. Elle est connue à trois titres : comme poétesse de talent et femme d’esprit dans le cercle d’amis où se retrouvaient Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds et David Garrick, comme moraliste et comme dame patronesse. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. février 1745 – 7. septembre 1833
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Hannah More: Citations en anglais

“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”

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“To those who know thee not, no words can paint!
And those who know thee, know all words are faint!”

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Sensibility.

“Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.”

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Sensibility.

“The keen spirit
Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
Start into instant action, and at once
Plans and performs, resolves and executes!”

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Daniel.

“… There's a joy,
To the fond votaries of fame unknown,
To hear the still small voice of conscience speak
In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul.”

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David and Goliath, Pt. I

“A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents,
And sink beneath a load of splendid care!”

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Daniel, Pt. VI