Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineauwas a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 June 1802
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class efforts
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always,takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
funny-inspirational thinker reader
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
punishment rewards consideration
I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.
marriage men glances
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.
teacher teaching responsibility
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
anxiety feelings degrees
We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.
hopeful genius characteristics
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
traveler seeing spectacles
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
numbers matter principles
There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles ...
party two political
In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.
pain feelings shadow
[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!
time ideas soul
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
modesty fidelity retiring
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.
religion pursuit temper
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.