American - Author | June 24, 1831 - September 29, 1910
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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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.
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
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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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Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
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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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But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
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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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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.
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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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No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
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But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
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