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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 a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
         

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



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Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.



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... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.



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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 to heaven or hell.



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



Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.



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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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Reform is born of need, not pity.





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