All Harriet Martineau Quotes
- Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts. Comfortably
- Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. Inspirational
- 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… Act
- We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. Believe
- There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne. Borne
- If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America. America
- 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… Civilization
- 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… Completely
- Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. Inspirational
- All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them… All
- The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work Awakened
- 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… Avoidance
- The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution. Goes
- Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions. Class
- Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last. Bring
- 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… Conscience
- It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. Aspiring
- Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. Anticipation
- I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. Author
- It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. Agnostic
- The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full… Condition
- 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… Cannot Originate
- The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. Always Takes
- 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… Been
- . . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? Bear