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Clara Barton, a Christian-like spirit.
Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain.
Clara Barton—no other woman has come so near the Christ Spirit. Worcester (Mass.) Gazette.
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. John Milton.
This was the most unkindest cut of all. Julius Caesar.
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile. Shakespeare.
The wicked plotteth against the just. Psalms.
The black destroyers, the red torturers
Shall vanish—they like smoke shall disappear.
Mother Armenia.
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
J. Petit-Senn.
’Twill not, false traitor!
’Twill not restore the truth and honesty
That thou hast banished from thy tongue with lies.
John Milton.
The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accursed. Lowell.
The utmost ingenuity of metaphysics cannot
Excuse the man who wantonly wounds another.
Benjamin Constant.
A woman’s shape doth shield thee. Shakespeare.
Aunt Clara has only Christian forgiveness for others. Stephen E. Barton (Executor of the Clara Barton estate, 1911).
Clara Barton had no time to hate; only time to serve, to live, to give,—one of the greatest souls that ever came to earth.
Alice Hubbard.