"The voice of a whole people goes up……" — Harriet Martineau
"The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution."
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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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