Quotes by Eliza Farnham

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Eliza Wood Burns Farnham was a 19th-century American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform.

Eliza Farnham Quotes on Life (2)

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"Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them."

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"The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul."

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Eliza Farnham Quotes on Power (1)

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"Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition."

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Eliza Farnham Quotes on Truth (1)

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"The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth."

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