We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.Harriet Martineau
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Harriet Martineau
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
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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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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
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