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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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As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.
Julia Ward Howe
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
Julia Ward Howe
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.
Julia Ward Howe
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.
Julia Ward Howe
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.
Julia Ward Howe
The language of the face is not taught by the schools it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.
Julia Ward Howe
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.
Julia Ward Howe
Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.
Julia Ward Howe
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
Julia Ward Howe
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.
Julia Ward Howe
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.
Julia Ward Howe
I was born 'neath a clouded star.
Julia Ward Howe
Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.
Julia Ward Howe
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.
Julia Ward Howe
Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.
Julia Ward Howe
I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.
Julia Ward Howe
Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.
Julia Ward Howe
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.
Julia Ward Howe
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
Julia Ward Howe
We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
Julia Ward Howe
