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The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when ... the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God. — Harriet Martineau

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. — Harriet Martineau

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. — Harriet Martineau

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. — Harriet Martineau

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. — Harriet Martineau

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions. — Harriet Martineau

It is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering. — Harriet Martineau

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

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. — Harriet Martineau

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

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work — Harriet Martineau

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts. — Harriet Martineau

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. — Harriet Martineau

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment. — Harriet Martineau

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America. — Harriet Martineau

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution. — Harriet Martineau

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

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. — Harriet Martineau

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. — Harriet Martineau

Influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth. — Harriet Martineau

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

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last. — Harriet Martineau

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. — Harriet Martineau

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all. — Harriet Martineau

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least. — Harriet Martineau

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. — Harriet Martineau

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others. — Harriet Martineau

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe. — Harriet Martineau

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

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. — Harriet Martineau

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early ... — Harriet Martineau

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

It matters infinitely less what we do than what we are. — Harriet Martineau

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ... — Harriet Martineau

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne. — Harriet Martineau

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies. — Harriet Martineau

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 ... — Harriet Martineau

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant. — Harriet Martineau

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible ... — Harriet Martineau

Is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? — Harriet Martineau

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution. — Harriet Martineau

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

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question. — Harriet Martineau

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. — Harriet Martineau

It is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers. — Harriet Martineau