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Rebecca Harding Davis has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national…
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It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it,…
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Reform is born of need, not pity.
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a…
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War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
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Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the…
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TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with…
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We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore…
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a…
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It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.
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But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
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The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income…
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The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing…
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They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last…
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You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
— George Herbert
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The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined…
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There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first…
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Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers
— Chinese Proverbs
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