“Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.”

— Julia Ward Howe

23 July 1875.
The Walk With God (1919)

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American abolitionist, social activist, and poet 1819–1910

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