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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

A soul occupied with great ide...

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

What office is there which inv...

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

Any one must see at a glance t...

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

The imagination, once awakened...

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Self-denial is taught much bet...

Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

The voice of a whole people go...

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Moral excellence has no regard...

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Keep innocency, and take heed ...

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Fidelity to conscience is inco...

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

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

Readers are plentiful; thinker...

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

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

It is characteristic of genius...

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

We do not believe in immortali...

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

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

As the astronomer rejoices in ...

As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the pride, and even the final cause of the universe, so do those who have escaped from the Christian mythology enjoy their release from the superstition which fails to make them happy, fails to make them good, fails to make them wise, and has become as great an obstacle in the way of progress as the prior mythologies which it took the place of two thousand years ago.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

I would not exchange my freedo...

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

I hope and believe my co-relig...

I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of language or darkening of its meanings can I be made to have any thing whatever in common with them about religious matters... they must take my word for it that there is nothing in common between their theology and my philosophy.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

The clergy complain of the eno...

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

My business in life has been t...

My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.

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