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A soul occupied with great id...

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Laws and customs may be creat...

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

We do not believe in immortal...

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Fidelity to conscience is inc...

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

The sum and substance of fema...

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

You had better live your best...

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

But is it not the fact that r...

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

A soul preoccupied with great...

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

I am sure that no traveler se...

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Any one must see at a glance ...

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

There have been few things in...

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Readers are plentiful; thinke...

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

I romanced internally about e...

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

I never did a right thing or ...

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

For my own part, I had rather...

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Men who pass most comfortably...

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

It is my deliberate opinion t...

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

If a test of civilization be ...

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

If the national mind of Ameri...

If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

What office is there which in...

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

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