Harriet Martineau Short Quotes

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It matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

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

Harriet Martineau
This large city lay in the landscape like an anthill in a meadow.

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The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

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Influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

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I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.

Harriet Martineau
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

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Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

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The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

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It is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

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Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams;
And sorrow tracketh wrong,
As echo follows song.

Harriet Martineau
Milton must have travelled in Michigan before he wrote the garden parts of Paradise Lost.

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I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

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

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Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

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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.

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A Sunday-school teacher asked a child… In what state were mankind left after the fall? — In the state of Vermont.

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Is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

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

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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

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Who is not 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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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.

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Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

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Marriage... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

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The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

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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.

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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

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There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties...

Harriet Martineau
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Harriet Martineau
In the present state of the religious world, Secularism ought to flourish. What an amount of sin and woe might and would then be extinguished.

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