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" 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. "
Women
Love
Men
" A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. "
Great
Small
Soul
" A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. "
Soul
Small
Ideas
" 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? "
Healthy
Moral
Nature
" 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. "
Only
Conscience
Which
" 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. "
Own
My Own
Work
" I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. "
Sure
Through
Things
" 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. "
Society
Civilization
Over
" If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America. "
Love
Run
True Love
" It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. "
Human Nature
Knowledge
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. "
Help
Creative
Laws
" Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts. "
World
Through
Men
" Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. "
Religion
Temper
Pursuit
" The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. "
Place
Efforts
Always
" 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. "
Mind
Life
Land
" The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. "
Women
Think
Marriage
" We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. "
Help
Believe
Immortality
" What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? "
Responsibility
More
Office
" You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. "
Today
Preparation
Best
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