"Happiness consists in the full employment of our……" — Harriet Martineau

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. - Harriet Martineau

"Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit."

— Harriet Martineau

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37 Quotes by Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure…
We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot…
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it…
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society…
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is…
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow…
The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work
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 Anticipation Quotes

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she… — Francis Beaumont
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and… — Dirk Benedict
He who matures early lives in anticipation. — Theodor Adorno
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never… — Josh Billings
What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. — Hal Borland
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. — George Burns
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. — Dale Carnegie

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