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The lesson taught us by these ...

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

My own feeling of concern aris...

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

I certainly never believed, mo...

I certainly never believed, more or less, in the 'essential doctrines' of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to sin and perdition, and Christ as their rescuer from that doom. I never was more or less behuiled by the trickery of language by which the perdition of man is made out to be justice, and his redemption to be mercy.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

I want to be a free rover on t...

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

There is no death to those who...

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

If there is any country on ear...

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

If a test of civilization be s...

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

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 kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

School is no place of educatio...

School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has to be done at home, and which may be done in all homes where the mother is a sensible woman.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

I think that few people are aw...

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Must love be ever treated with...

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,--mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

It never enters the lady's hea...

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Day-thoughts feed nightly drea...

Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams;
And sorrow tracketh wrong,
As echo follows song.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

if I believed that the choice ...

if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary correspondence, I could not hesitate for a moment. I would keep the old and precious privacy,-the inestimable right of every one who has a friend and can write to him, - I would keep our written confidence from being made biographical material, as anxiously as I would keep our spoken conversation from being noted down for the good of society.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

A Queen, or a Prime Minister's...

A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

I romanced internally about ea...

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

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Even if their outward fortunes...

Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

[On being deaf:] We can never ...

[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

[On being deaf:] We must strug...

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

[On being deaf:] How much less...

[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

Harriet Martineau 119 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....