Rebecca Harding Davis

Born :24 June 1831

Tribute :29 September 1910

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Rebecca Harding Davis born on 24th June 1831, and passed away on 29th September 1910, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past 79 years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 25 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Rebecca Harding Davis

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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.

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 gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

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.

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.

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

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

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

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

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

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.

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 potato, just as you would do.

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.

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

Reform is born of need, not pity.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

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

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

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

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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