Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
“Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.”
— Hannah More · Chains
The World Motivation
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
“Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.”
— Hannah More · Chains
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
I try to get every yard possible as far as moving the chains and stuff.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul; and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.