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While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Julia Ward Howe

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Julia Ward Howe
Age: 91 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 27
Died: 1910
Died: October 17
Activist
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Peace Activist
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Suffragette
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New York City
New York
Julia Ward
Mrs. Samuel Gridley Howe
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The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
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The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.
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Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.
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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.
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I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.
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I was born 'neath a clouded star.
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The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.
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Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
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I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
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Any religion which will sacrifice a certain set of human beings for the enjoyment or aggrandizement or advantage of another is no religion. It is a thing which may be allowed, but it is against true religion. Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.
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In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.
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There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being able to make a sacrifice. These two thoughts come to me strongly this morning. It is something to have learned these truths so that we can never again doubt them.
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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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Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!
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The language of the face is not taught by the schools it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.
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