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My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

Joseph Howe
Believe, Solitude, Life Is
Joseph Howe (1858). “Speeches and Public Letters”, p.69

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.

Joseph Howe
Wise, Country, Pride
1871 Address at Framingham, Massachusetts, 31 Aug. Collected in Poems and Essays (1874).

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Joseph Howe
Politics, Married, Maidens

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Joseph Howe
Smile, Illustration, May
Joseph Howe (1858). “Speeches and Public Letters”, p.39

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Joseph Howe
Book, Library, World

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