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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
Lyricist
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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I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
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The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
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Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.
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It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.
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He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. Oh! be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on.
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God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
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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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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 shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
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Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.
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The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.
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Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.
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Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.
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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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Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.
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The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.
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It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.
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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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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -
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In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.
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