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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.
Harriet Martineau
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Harriet Martineau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1802
Born: June 12
Died: 1876
Died: June 27
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I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.
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There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .
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This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar the other indistinctive and gross.
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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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. . . 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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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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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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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.
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I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.
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Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.
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I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.
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Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
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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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Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatment will be painful. Let sister, or brother, or friend, tell me that I must never look to be well. When the time approaches that I am to die, let me be told that I am to die, and when.
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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 clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.
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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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it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.
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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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