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Here I am, in Quaker surroundings, whose restful simplicity is most congenial to me. I feel here the earnest desire for genuine growth and culture which founds a slow but sure success. I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

— Julia Ward Howe The Walk With God (1919)

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Arise, then, Christian women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears!

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