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Harriet Martineau Quotes

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it Picture Quote #1

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question Picture Quote #1

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered Picture Quote #1

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I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature Picture Quote #1

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it Picture Quote #1

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts Picture Quote #1

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs Picture Quote #1

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow Picture Quote #1

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant Picture Quote #1

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education Picture Quote #1

We do not believe in immortality because we can’t prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it Picture Quote #1

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Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last Picture Quote #1

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument Picture Quote #1

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet Picture Quote #1

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence Picture Quote #1

The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic Picture Quote #1

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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it (Harriet Martineau Quotes) The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question (Harriet Martineau Quotes) What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? (Harriet Martineau Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered (Harriet Martineau Quotes) I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are (Harriet Martineau Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature (Harriet Martineau Quotes) Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it (Harriet Martineau Quotes) Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts (Harriet Martineau Quotes) The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class (Harriet Martineau Quotes) 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 (Harriet Martineau Quotes) The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs (Harriet Martineau Quotes) You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow (Harriet Martineau Quotes) I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant (Harriet Martineau Quotes) Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education (Harriet Martineau Quotes) We do not believe in immortality because we can’t prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it (Harriet Martineau Quotes) Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last (Harriet Martineau Quotes) Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument (Harriet Martineau Quotes) I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet (Harriet Martineau Quotes) The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence (Harriet Martineau Quotes) The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic (Harriet Martineau Quotes)

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