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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Julia Ward Howe
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Julia Ward Howe
Age: 91 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 27
Died: 1910
Died: October 17
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New York City
New York
Julia Ward
Mrs. Samuel Gridley Howe
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In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
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The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.
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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
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We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
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Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.
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