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Julia Ward Howe

"Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy."

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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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"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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"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 take refuge in my books."
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"Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession."
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"Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom."
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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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"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."

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