Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes

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. - Rebecca Harding Davis

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . . - Rebecca Harding Davis