"It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful…" — Harriet Martineau
"It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring."
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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 Aspiring Quotes
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me…
— Nick Cannon
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make…
— Diablo Cody
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Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality,…
— Sri Chinmoy
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We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls…
— Hassan al-Banna
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Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to…
— Jacques Barzun
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There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion…
— Linda Ronstadt
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