- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- False
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020