"I am sure that no traveler seeing things……" — Harriet Martineau
"I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are."
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37 Quotes by Harriet Martineau
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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 Author Quotes
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by…
— Henry Adams
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new…
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
— Robert Benchley
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first…
— Robert Benchley
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
— Jeff Bezos
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
— Joyce Brothers
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
— Nolan Bushnell
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