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America’s foremost woman. Houghton (Mich.) Gazette.
Clara Barton’s, a career which has no parallel in American history. Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer.
Clara Barton—in citizenship, the memory of her career must remain a rich heritage to the people of this country.
Portland (Ore.) Telegram.
Clara Barton’s Red Cross achievements are monumental, and because of the corner-stone she laid the present superstructure will endure. Her name is the synonym for the American Red Cross as it was, and as it is. B. F. Tillinghast, Delegate to the International Red Cross Conference at St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1902.
Destiny is the decree of God. A. Cunningham.
Destiny cannot be avoided. G. Cowpay.
Destiny bears us to our lot. Disraeli.
Who can turn the stream of destiny? Spencer.
In your own bosom are your destiny’s stars. Coleridge.
How circumscribed is woman’s destiny. Goethe.
Let a woman steer straight onward to the fulfillment of her own destiny. Mrs. Emma R. Cole.
Clara Barton—one of the immortals. Brooklyn Citizen.
Quaff immortality. John Milton.
Born of immortality. Wordsworth.
This longing after immortality. Addison.
I have an immortal longing in me. Shakespeare.
Immortality! We bow before the very term, Immortality!
George Douglas.
’Tis immortality to die aspiring. Chapman.
No one could meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. Cicero.
Clara Barton—she earned immortality.
Boston (Mass.) Herald.
She passes through the portals of immortality.
Joplin (Mo.) Globe.
Rest thee among the immortal names that were not born to die.
Rutland (Vermont) Herald.
He is truly great that is great in charity.
Thomas À Kempis.
The most useful is the greatest. Theodore Parker.
Great names stand not alone for great deeds. Henry Giles.
He who does the most good is the greatest. Bishop Jartin.
He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. Roswell D. Hitchcock.
As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country; yea, of the whole earth. Heine.
Greatness is nothing unless it is lasting. Napoleon.
On eagle’s wings immortal scandals fly. Stephen Harvey.
To reproach is a concomitant to greatness, as satire and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Joseph Addison.
Such is the destiny of great men that their superior genius always exposes them to the butt of the envenomed darts of calumny and envy. Voltaire.
America has her Washingtons, Jeffersons, Lees, and others whose names are written down in the hearts of all Americans, but Clara Barton accomplished a work compared with which the career of generals fade in the distance as a shadow.
Pensacola (Fla.) Journal.