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, cloggy mass.
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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
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.
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Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hill 5 of Pennsylvania.
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North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.
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While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman was, from first to last, a boorish, awkward poseur.
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