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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
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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Julia Ward
Mrs. Samuel Gridley Howe
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While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
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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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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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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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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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The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
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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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It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.
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I was born 'neath a clouded star.
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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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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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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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I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -
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It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.
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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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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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Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.
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