Author: Rebecca Harding Davis

Quotes

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

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

- Rebecca Harding Davis

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.

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.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

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.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

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.

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.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

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.

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.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

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.

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.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

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

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

- Rebecca Harding Davis

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

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

- Rebecca Harding Davis

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