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

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

Harriet Martineau
Heart, Men, Literature

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

Harriet Martineau
Aquariums, Essentials, Literature
Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.645, Broadview Press

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

Harriet Martineau
Writing, Literature, Traveler
Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.330, Broadview Press

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Harriet Martineau
Religion, Atheism, Literature
Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158

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
Nature, Healthy, Literature
Harriet Martineau (1962). “Society in America”

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.

Harriet Martineau
Literature, Modesty, Fidelity
Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.112

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