All Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes
- Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts… Add
- It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it… Closely
- Reform is born of need, not pity. Born
- For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we… All
- War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. Angel
- Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these… Calm
- TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself… Always Felt
- We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or… All
- For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we… All
- It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. Agreed
- But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls. Inspirational
- America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. America
- No man surely has so short a memory as the American. American
- Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror. Alien
- Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. Agent
- You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. Glad
- You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a… Bargain
- We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us. Business
- The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life… Absolute
- North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him. Appealed
- The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay. Childhood
- These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes… Cast
- The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. Banquet
- Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts… Adds
- I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern… Apart