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
Topics: Woman
The strokes of the pen need deliberation, as much as those of the sword need swiftness.
—Julia Ward Howe
Topics: Writers, Authors & Writing, Writing
Every life has its actual blanks which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless forever.
—Julia Ward Howe
Topics: Ideals
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
—Julia Ward Howe
Topics: Honor
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.
—Julia Ward Howe
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