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My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.
Harriet Martineau
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Harriet Martineau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1802
Born: June 12
Died: 1876
Died: June 27
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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.
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influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.
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the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.
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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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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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it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.
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There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles.
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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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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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Who is 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 matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.
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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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It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
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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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While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.
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Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.
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