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The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.
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
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Julia Ward
Mrs. Samuel Gridley Howe
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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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I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
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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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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
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I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.
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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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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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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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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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It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.
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While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
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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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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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God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
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Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.
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