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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
New York
Julia Ward
Mrs. Samuel Gridley Howe
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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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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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It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.
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It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.
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I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.
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I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
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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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I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -
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I was born 'neath a clouded star.
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The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
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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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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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Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.
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