I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment. Harriet Martineau More Quotes by Harriet Martineau More Quotes From Harriet Martineau [On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others. Harriet Martineau struggle comfort may Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away. Harriet Martineau government hope fear if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary correspondence, I could not hesitate for a moment. I would keep the old and precious privacy,-the inestimable right of every one who has a friend and can write to him, - I would keep our written confidence from being made biographical material, as anxiously as I would keep our spoken conversation from being noted down for the good of society. Harriet Martineau sacrifice writing order Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; Harriet Martineau echoes dream song . . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? Harriet Martineau independence understanding race it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering. Harriet Martineau illness causes suffering Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatment will be painful. Let sister, or brother, or friend, tell me that I must never look to be well. When the time approaches that I am to die, let me be told that I am to die, and when. Harriet Martineau medicine brother truth Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction. Harriet Martineau tyrants silence dark 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 republic purity country The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution. Harriet Martineau silent voice people If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America. Harriet Martineau running love country Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit. Harriet Martineau leisure degrees men If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all. Harriet Martineau law order america the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have. Harriet Martineau honorable-man men people 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? Harriet Martineau healthy nature literature School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has to be done at home, and which may be done in all homes where the mother is a sensible woman. Harriet Martineau mother education children You 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. 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 A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. Harriet Martineau best great soul ideas
