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Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!
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
Julia Ward
Mrs. Samuel Gridley Howe
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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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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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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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The language of the face is not taught by the schools it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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 broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.
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I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -
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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.
Julia Ward Howe
Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.
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I was born 'neath a clouded star.
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