“ I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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“ 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 harmonised, the religion cannot be healthy. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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“ I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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“ A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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“ For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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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? (Society in America) ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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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
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“ [on a visit to the United States:] 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
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“ 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
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“ 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 from the exercises of the right of the strongest. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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“ 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
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“ I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart'slove for legal prostitution. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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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. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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“ I am in truth very thankful for not having married at all. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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Inspirational Quotes : |
“ A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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“ For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen ... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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“ All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation? ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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“ 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
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“ 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
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“ The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. ” ~   Harriet Martineau
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