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Cannot Quotes by Harriet Martineau
- We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
- 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…
- 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…
- Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.
- We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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