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I am sure I express the sentiment of our great commonwealth when I say “All honor to the memory of the great founder of the Red Cross.”
Charles E. Townsend, U. S. Senate.
Clara Barton’s fame will live as long as the race honors self-sacrificing devotion in ministering to the suffering.
Dayton (Ohio) Journal.
Clara Barton—her fame will live throughout the ages.
Tampa (Fla.) Tribune.
Thou art Freedom’s now and Fame’s. Fitz-Greene Halleck.
Fame outlives marble. W. G. Clark.
Fame is but a phantom. J. Brooks.
Fame is the echo of action. Fulton.
Fame is a magnifying glass. Pavillon.
Fame is the thin shadow of eternity. Martin Luther.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. Socrates.
Fame comes only when deserved. H. W. Longfellow.
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Milton.
The temple of fame stands upon the grave. Hazlitt.
With fame—in just proportion, envy grows. Young.
He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause.
Titus Andronicus.
What is fame? A fancied life in other’s breath.
Pope—Essay on Man.
NICHOLAS II
The Czar of Russia
Oh, no, Miss Barton, not you.
The Czar.
The Czar is young and handsome, an educated, refined, kind-hearted gentleman. I know him. Clara Barton.
ALEXANDRA FEODOROWNA
The Czarina of Russia
The Czarina was the active head of the Red Cross, in the Russian famine of 1892. She and the Czar gave a special audience to Clara Barton, on the occasion of her visit to St. Petersburg, in 1902.
THE ROYALTY OF RUSSIA
MARIA FEODOROWNA
The Empress Dowager
née Princess Dagmar of Denmark
The personal friend of Clara Barton and who, with the Czar, presented her with a decoration. See page [327], decoration No. 23.
There is nothing vainer than the love of fame. Theophrastus.
Earth hath bubbles as the water has. Macbeth.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing and for whom you care as little.
Stanislaus.
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call;
She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.
Alexander Pope—In The Temple of Fame.
So long as we love, we serve. Robert Louis Stevenson.
Happiness can be attained only by considering the good of others as our own. Tolstoi.
Love gives itself to others, and inclines to extremest sacrifice.
Tolstoi.
To give up seeking one’s own happiness, as animals, is the true law of the life of humanity. Tolstoi.
When we help someone else, we add to our own resources and power. Dr. Eugene Underhill.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve happiness. Fichte.
He serves most who serves his country best. Alexander Pope.
They never fail who die in a good cause. Byron.
Coarseness and roughness lock doors and close hearts; courtesy, refinement and gentleness are “open sesame” at which bolts fly back and doors swing open. William Matthews.
The years of unsheltered days and nights, the sun and storm, the dews and damps have done their work and now with bitter tears I turn my face away from the land I have loved so well and seek in a foreign clime, perchance, a little of the good strength once lent me here. Clara Barton.
Reserve your energies, doing those little things that be in your way, each as well as you can, so that when God shall call you to do something good and great you will be ready to do the work quickly and well. Clara Barton.
We question whether there has been any man or woman in the whole world’s history who has been a greater blessing to mankind than Clara Barton. Topeka Daily Journal.
Clara Barton stands as the complete refutation of the spirit of the age that either great wealth, social position or political power is necessary to the achievement of success.
The Universalist Leader (Boston).
Life is giving one’s self to save others. Clara Barton.
Grace was in all her steps, heav’n in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love. Milton.