"North and South were equally confident that God……" — Rebecca Harding Davis
"North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him."
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28 Quotes by Rebecca Harding Davis
Rebecca Harding Davis has 28 quotes on this site.
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to…
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It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or…
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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…
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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…
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TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could…
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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…
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests…
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It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call…
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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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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
— Karen Armstrong
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The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character…
— Nicolas Cage
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,…
— Abraham Cahan
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All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the…
— William James
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All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever…
— George Orwell
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The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it…
— Jonathan Ive
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He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal,…
— Jeremy Northam
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There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not…
— Geoff Nicholson
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The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to…
— William Rawle
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Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best…
— Peter Kropotkin
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I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative…
— James Madison
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Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
— Alexander Hamilton
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