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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
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

Harriet Martineau
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and to view mankind in true perspective, in their gradations of inherent rather than of adventitious worth. Genius is therefore essentially democratic, and has always been so.

Harriet Martineau
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

Harriet Martineau
There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles.

Harriet Martineau
It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in America: among my own circle of correspondents there, there are ladies and gentlemen whose letters would stand a comparison with any for frankness, grace, and epistolary beauty of every kind. But I am not aware of any medium between this excellence and the boarding-school insignificance which characterizes the rest.

Harriet Martineau