The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work Harriet Martineau More Quotes by Harriet Martineau More Quotes From Harriet Martineau 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 sentiments religious god I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment. Harriet Martineau consideration punishment rewards The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. Harriet Martineau progression effort class All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them. Harriet Martineau dolls eye people Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live. Harriet Martineau atmosphere men moving [On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp! Harriet Martineau shadow pain feelings I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution. Harriet Martineau sacrifice pressure heart Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,--mysterious, universal, inevitable as death. Harriet Martineau disease love lying It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies. Harriet Martineau selfishness nurse baby I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. Harriet Martineau traveler literature writing 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 teaching teacher A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common. Harriet Martineau queens evil america [On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation. Harriet Martineau trials views wise As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the pride, and even the final cause of the universe, so do those who have escaped from the Christian mythology enjoy their release from the superstition which fails to make them happy, fails to make them good, fails to make them wise, and has become as great an obstacle in the way of progress as the prior mythologies which it took the place of two thousand years ago. Harriet Martineau giving-up christian wise 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 origin-of-species latter organization Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least. Harriet Martineau sophisticated simplicity world I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to sin and perdition, and Christ as their rescuer from that doom. I never was more or less behuiled by the trickery of language by which the perdition of man is made out to be justice, and his redemption to be mercy. Harriet Martineau atheism justice men I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet. Harriet Martineau superstitions next atheism A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. Harriet Martineau soul time ideas 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 marriage love men
