"Men who pass most comfortably through this world……" — Harriet Martineau
"Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts."
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37 Quotes by Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau has 37 quotes on this site.
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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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The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
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All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
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The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's…
— Alan Shepard
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One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than…
— George Eliot
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To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own…
— Vincent D'Onofrio
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If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and…
— Sun Tzu
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People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if…
— Herman Melville
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One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.
— Verner Panton
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From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem…
— Eddie Murphy
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Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and…
— Uma Thurman
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