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Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: It was part of your religion to hate the British.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

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 quotes: 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 quotes: The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.

The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.

Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: 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 quotes: Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

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

Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: 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.

Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

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

Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: Reform is born of need, not pity.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

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

Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

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

Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: 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 quotes: But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

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

Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: 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 quotes: No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

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

Rebecca Harding Davis quotes: You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

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