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Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe (/haʊ/; May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was an American poet and author, best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." She was also an advocate for abolitionism and was a social activist, particularly for women's suffrage.

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My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

Baby, Children, Husband, Scarcely

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

Legitimate, Rise, Rise Above, Self, Wish

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.

Evil, Goes On, Goods, Progress, Refused, Sat

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.

Courses, Fighting, Holy, Stars, Struggle, Wrath

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

Following, Forgive Me, Forgiving, God, Instinct, Nature

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

Coming, Eye, Glory, Lord, Marching On

The frozen ocean. . . of Boston life.

Boston, Frozen, Life, Ocean

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

Expression, Faith, Inspire, Life, True

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.

Altar, Day, Dew, Dim, Lamps, Marching On

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

Death, Debt, Like, Nature, Owe

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

Fill, Forever, Ideals, Life

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.

Capacity, Doubt, Feminist, Pursuit, Women

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

Already, Optimistic, Things, Thinking, View, Views

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.

Light, Lightened, Mind, Nine, Soul, Thank

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

Blind, Community, Feds, Learn, Make, Useful

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

Beauty, Good, Profession, Should

I never could be good when I was not happy.

Be Good, Good, Happy, Not Happy

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

Dark, Done, Purpose, Work

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

Broken, Civilization, Eggshells, Time

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.

Coming, Eye, Eyes, God, Stored, War

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