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Harriet Martineau Quotes

«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»
«It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature»
«What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?»
«Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts»
«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.»
«A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties»
«I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are»
«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»
«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»
«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»