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“ If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. ”

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Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.

~ Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau Reading Thinking

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

~ Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau Self Control

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

Harriet Martineau Religion Healthy Moral

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

~ Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau Temper Pursuit