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.
From 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?
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
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