Harriet Martineau - Love Quotes

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Harriet Martineau

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Harriet Martineau

Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life.

Harriet Martineau

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

Harriet Martineau

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

Harriet Martineau

There is no death to those who perfectly love, — only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

Harriet Martineau