Julia Ward Howe Quotes

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• It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Self, Wish, Rise Above

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Hiking, People, Faithful

  Entry in the journal for June 07, 1874. "The Walk With God". Book by Julia Ward Howe, 1919.

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• We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We, the 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

  Country, Husband, Taken

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

  Julia Ward Howe

  New Year, Writing, Thinking

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• Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

  Julia Ward Howe

  Tea, Life Is Like, Age

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Sacrifice, Men, Brutality

  "What is Religion?". Speech at the "Parliament of World Religions", Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair, 1893.

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• Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Work, Dark, Purpose

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• I want to take the word Christianity back to Christ himself, back to that mighty heart whose pulse seems to throb through the world today, that endless fountain of charity out of which I believe has come all true progress and all civilization that deserves the name. I go back to that great Spirit which contemplated a sacrifice for the whole of humanity. That sacrifice is not one of exclusion, but of an infinite and endless and joyous inclusion. And I thank God for it.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Believe, Heart, Sacrifice

  "What is Religion?". Speech at the "Parliament of World Religions", Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair, 1893.

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Women, Feminist, Doubt

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Country, Son, Carnage

  Julia Ward Howe (1871). “Proceedings of a peace meeting held at Union league hall, New York, December 23rd, 1870, for the purpose of free consultation on the subject of a woman's peace congress for the world, as proposed by ... Julia Ward Howe”, p.30

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• As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Men, Marching On, Lilies

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Self, Discipline, Triumph

  Entry in the journal for July 23, 1875. "The Walk With God". Book by Julia Ward Howe, 1919.

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  School, Faces, Taught

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Education, Keys, Adequate Knowledge

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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

  War, Home, Mean

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Morning, Selfish, Heart

  Entry in the journal for August 22, 1875. "The Walk With God". Book by Julia Ward Howe, 1919.

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Sex, Thinking, Individual

  "What is Religion?". Speech at the "Parliament of World Religions", Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair, 1893.

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Perception, Daily Life, Edges

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• God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Instinct

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Stars, Struggle, Fighting

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.25

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• Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

  Julia Ward Howe

  Optimistic, Thinking, Views

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• It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Beauty, Should, Profession

  Julia Ward Howe (1880). “Modern Society”

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Order, Economy, Feminine

  Julia Ward Howe (1880). “Modern Society”

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• While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

  Julia Ward Howe

  Life, Expression, Inspire

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Heart, Men, Marching On

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.42

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