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Harriet Martineau

"A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties."

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"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
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"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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