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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure pre...

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It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love...

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[Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] th...

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Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of w...

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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society ov...

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider m...

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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the posses...

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

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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individua...

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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure prep...

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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

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

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Harriet Martineau

Writer

Born: 1802-06-12

Died: 1876-06-27

Harriet Martineau (June 12, 1802 – June 27, 1876) was an English writer and philosopher, known in her day as a journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist.More