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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.

Harriet Martineau

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Harriet Martineau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1802
Born: June 12
Died: 1876
Died: June 27
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During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society.
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influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.
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[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.
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Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life.
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
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I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
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Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil.
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Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.
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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?
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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.
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[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.
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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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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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