Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howewas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth27 May 1819
CountryUnited States of America
hiking people faithful
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
tea age life-is-like
Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!
new-year writing thinking
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
men marching-on lilies
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
ocean boston frozen
The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
stars struggle fighting
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.
light soul brain
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.
past remembrance feelings
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.
country son carnage
We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
thinking sometimes britain
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
morning selfish heart
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.
life forever ideals
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.
country husband taken
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.
simple agreement differences
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.