Harriet Martineau Quotes

• Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

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  Education, Men, Views

  Harriet Martineau (2004). “Harriet Martineau: Studies of America, 1831-1868”

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• It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

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  Truth, Suppression, Diffusion

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.147

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• Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

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  Funny Inspirational, Reading, Knowledge

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.176

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• 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.

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  Future, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

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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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  Imperfect, Institutions, Inequality

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.120

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• Todas las mujeres deben informarse de la condición de su sexo y de su propia posición. De ello se deduce necesariamente que las más nobles de ellas, tarde o temprano, desplegarán un poder moral que postrará a los cantones y romperá los lazos (de seda para algunos, pero de hierro frío para otros) de los prejuicios y costumbres feudales. Mientras tanto, ¿debe entenderse que los principios de la Declaración de Independencia no guardan relación con la mitad de la raza humana? Si es así, ¿cuál es el motivo de esta limitación?

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  Sex, Iron, Race

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.179

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• it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

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  Identity, Matter

  Harriet Martineau (1849). “Life in the sick-room. Essays. By an invalid [i.e. H. Martineau] ... Third edition”, p.138

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• It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

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  Hopeful, Genius, Characteristics

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.7

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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.

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  Thinking, America, Training

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158

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• influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

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  Truth, Sides, Morality

  Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.187

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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.

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  Power, Civilization, Half

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.156

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• The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

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  Imagination, Ought, Awakened

  Harriet Martineau (1849). “Household Education”, p.256

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• I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

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  Men, Saws, Discrimination

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.8

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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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  Christian, Ideas, Atheism

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.574, Broadview Press

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• Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

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  Employment, Anticipation, Pursuit

  Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.81

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• We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

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  Anxiety, Feelings, Looks

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• The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

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  Class, Effort, Progression

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.179

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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.

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  Thinking, Speaks Out, Atheism

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.85, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

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  Christian, Feelings, Suffering

  Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman (2010). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography”, p.444, Cambridge University Press

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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.

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  Amor, Matrimonio, Hombres

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.168

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• A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

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  Time, Ideas, Soul

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• Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

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  Men, Degrees, Leisure

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.124

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• Rompí internamente sobre la muerte temprana hasta que fue demasiado tarde para morir temprano.

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  Too Late, Late, Early Death

  Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman (2010). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography”, p.435, Cambridge University Press

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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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  Heart, Men, Literature

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• Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

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  Class, Excellence, Moral

  Harriet Martineau (1838). “How to Observe: Morals and Manners”, p.85, Transaction Publishers

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