Julia Ward Howe Quotes
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Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.
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Don't you think that the best things are already in view?
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The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.
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I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.
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When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.
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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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Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.
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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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I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.
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Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.
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The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.
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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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While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
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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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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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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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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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Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
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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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It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.
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When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.
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My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.
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Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
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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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Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!
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The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.
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I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.
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When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.
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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 language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.
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