"A soul occupied with great ideas performs small…" — Harriet Martineau
"A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties."
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37 Quotes by Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau has 37 quotes on this site.
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure…
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We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot…
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There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.
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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it…
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society…
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is…
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow…
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The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work
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Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and…
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More Duties Quotes
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
— Felix Adler
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see…
— Harold Brodkey
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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable…
— Samuel Alito
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need…
— Tom Clancy
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Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.
— Doug Larson
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