"Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a……" — Harriet Martineau
"Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument."
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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 Apt Quotes
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil…
— Aristotle
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
— Joseph Addison
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let…
— Buffalo Bill
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women,…
— Sherman Alexie
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
— Lord Chesterfield
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to…
— Maya Angelou
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Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
— Ivan Pavlov
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
— Alexander Hamilton
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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
— Mark Twain
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Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to…
— Oswald Chambers
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