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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -

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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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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Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.
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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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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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God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
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I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
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I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.
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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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While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
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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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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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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
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The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.
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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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Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
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