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.
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, lo… - 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. The sun, the earth, lo…
- Rebecca Harding Davis
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. - Rebecca Harding Davis
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
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 t… - Rebecca Harding Davis
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 t…
No man surely has so short a memory as the American. - Rebecca Harding Davis
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
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, clog… - Rebecca Harding Davis
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, clog…
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. - Rebecca Harding Davis
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
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
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
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
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.
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… - Rebecca Harding Davis
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…
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