Ethel Lynn Beers quotes
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“All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.”
-- Ethel Lynn BeersSource : "The Picket-Guard" l. 41 (1861) See Remarque 1
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“Only a mother's heart can be Patient enough for such as he.”
-- Ethel Lynn BeersSource : Ethel Lynn Beers, Mrs. Ethelinda Elliot Beers (1879). “All Quiet Along the Potomac: And Other Poems”
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“All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.”
-- Ethel Lynn Beers
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“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
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Source : ADONIRAM JUDSON (1854). “RECORDS OF THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND ACHIEVEMENTS”, p.96
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“If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.”
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