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Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau
English Writer
Born: Jun 12, 1802
Died: Jun 27, 1876
Any Cannot Duties Great Ideas Help Soul
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? Harriet Martineau
Responsibility Ought Honorable More Qualifications Involves Than Office Which Requires Teaching Therefore
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
Power Half Society Other Civilization Over Sure Sought None Test Condition Which
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
Life Mind My Life Few Possession More Had Piece Genial Been Effect Than Few Things Which Land Things
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
Life Education Marriage Women Training Think Sum Consider Sole Pretend Object Female America Substance England
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. Harriet Martineau
Great Soul Great Ideas Small Performs Ideas Occupied Duties
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. Harriet Martineau
Try Believe We Cannot Immortality Because Prove Cannot Help Believing
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
Work Class Witness Own My Own Rather Having Kitchen Had Part Occasionally Than Any Which Held Europe Suffer Chambers Inconvenience
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. Harriet Martineau
Creative Virtue Correction Laws Observation Perpetually Encourage May Vice Cannot Process Customs Should Help Therefore Originate Preserve
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. Harriet Martineau
See Seeing Through Sure Am Author Them Traveler Things Spectacles

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