"What office is there which involves more responsibility,……" — Harriet Martineau
"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
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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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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically…
— Mortimer Adler
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts,…
— Wendell Berry
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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient…
— Steven Brust
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The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People…
— Nick Cave
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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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What is permissible is not always honorable.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition.…
— Eric Clapton
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
— Henry Clay
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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or…
— Mario Andretti
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