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Society in America (1837)
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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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If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.
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It is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.
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Milton must have travelled in Michigan before he wrote the garden parts of Paradise Lost.
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Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.
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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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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.
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Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.
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Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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Harriet Martineau
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Born:
June 12, 1802
Died:
June 27, 1876
(aged 74)
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