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> [The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/the-imagination-once-awakened-must-and-will-work-and-ought-to-work/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

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## More by Harriet Martineau

> [There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/there-have-been-few-things-in-my-life-which-have-had-a-more-genial/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/it-is-a-testament-to-the-strength-and-purity-of-the-democratic/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/school-is-no-place-of-education-for-any-children-whatever-till-their/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/authorship-has-never-been-with-me-a-matter-of-choice-i-have-not-done/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/it-is-the-worst-humiliation-and-grievance-of-the-suffering-that-they/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/fidelity-to-conscience-is-inconsistent-with-retiring-modesty-if-it-be/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/i-wrote-because-i-could-not-help-it-there-was-something-that-i-wanted/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/the-instruction-furnished-is-not-good-enough-for-the-youth-of-such-a/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [ \[I\] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/i-wish-that-the-land-tax-went-a-little-more-according-to-situation/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/who-is-apt-on-occasion-to-assign-a-multitude-of-reasons-when-one-will/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/it-is-hard-to-tell-which-is-worse-the-wide-diffusion-of-things-that/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/religion-is-a-temper-not-a-pursuit-it-is-the-moral-atmosphere-in/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/moral-excellence-has-no-regard-to-classes-and-professions/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/i-want-to-be-a-free-rover-on-the-breezy-common-of-the-universe/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

> [For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/for-my-own-part-i-had-rather-suffer-any-inconvenience-from-having-to/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

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