20 ordspråk av Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau föddes den June 12th 1802 och dog den 27 June 1876 - English journalist
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 A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. |
| A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are |
| 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 |
| If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America. |
| It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature |
| 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 |
| Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts |
| Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. |
| The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always,takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. |
| The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always,takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. |
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Proverb (1469541 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
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Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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