Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes

• But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

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• We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

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• Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

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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 table which we did not spread.

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• But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

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• 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 Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.

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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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• America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

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• Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

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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, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

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• North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

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• It was part of your religion to hate the British.

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• No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

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• Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

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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 difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

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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 honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

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• 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 in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

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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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• 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 and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

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• The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

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Rebecca Harding Davis (25)

Birth:	24th June, 1831
Death:	29th September, 1910
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis was an American author and journalist. She is deemed a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her most important literary work is the novella Life in the Iron Mills, published in the April 1861 edition of the Atlantic Monthly which quickly made her an established female writer.

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