Quotes by Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

… I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar atmosphere, speak its own little patois, and see but one side of the question on which it fights.

Atmosphere

Fighting

Party

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

Burning

Lamps

Light

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

America

May

Novelists

Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.

Country

Money

Teacher

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

Politician

Remember

Soul

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

Aliens

Crime

Men

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

Agents

Children

Devil

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be.

Children

Christian

Money

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.

Guests

May

Tables

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. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet…. Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

Godly

Inspirational

Thanksgiving

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British

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Chiefs

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Children

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Clay

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Credit

Crime

Devil

Differences

Earth

Evil

Expression

Eye

Fate

Fighting

Glad

Godly

Grandfather

Great Day

Guests

Gun

Hate

Heart

Heaven

Hero

Ideas

Increase

Inspirational

Lamps

Light

Lying

May

Mean

Memories

Men

Mistake

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Quotes by Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

… I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar atmosphere, speak its own little patois, and see but one side of the question on which it fights.

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

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

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

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

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

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be.

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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