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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 weakness in argument. ”

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Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.

~ Harriet Martineau

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

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

~ 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