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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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Past, Remembrance, Feelings

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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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  Lying, Men, Soul

  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 have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

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  Husband, My Husband, Mines

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• How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

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  Going Out

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• Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

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  Simple, Agreement, Differences

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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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  Light, Soul, Brain

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• Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

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  Bed, Died

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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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  Marching On, Dew, Lamps

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.41

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• Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

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  Serenity, Mind, Morality

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• I never could be good when I was not happy.

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  Not Happy, Be Good

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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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  Life, Forever, Ideals

  Julia Ward Howe (1868). “From the Oak to the Olive: A Plain Record of a Pleasant Journey”, p.153, Library of Alexandria

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• The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

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  Ocean, Boston, Frozen

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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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  Community, Blind, Feds

  Julia Ward Howe (1900). “Reminiscences: 1819-1899”

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• Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -

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  Eye, Marching On, Glory

  "Battle Hymn of the Republic" l. 1 (1862)

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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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  Evil, Progress, Goes On

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• The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

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  Civilization, Broken, Eggshells

  Julia Ward Howe (1868). “From the Oak to the Olive: A Plain Record of a Pleasant Journey”, p.171

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• Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

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  Divine Wisdom, Theology, Ingenuity

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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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  Truth, Judging, Evil

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• I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

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  Thinking, Sometimes, Britain

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• Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Debt

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

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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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  Baby, Children, Husband

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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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  Passion, Feels, Ifs

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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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  Sight, Limits, Metamorphosis

  "Beyond the Veil". Essay in "In After Days: Thoughts on the Future Life", book by Henry James and William Dean Howells, 1910.

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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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  Dust, Heaven, Railroads

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• I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.

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  Crush, Hero, Marching On

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

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