Fond as we are of our loved ...

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
 Anna Howard Shaw

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The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
 Anna Howard Shaw
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
 Anna Howard Shaw
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
 Anna Howard Shaw