". . . is it to be understood……" — Harriet Martineau
". . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?"
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear…
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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