Problem
Quote Identification and Significance
1) Over those politicians and great and little rings, and over all their insolence and wiles, and over the powerfulest parties, looms a power, too sluggish maybe, but ever holding decisions and decrees in hand, ready, with stern process, to execute them as soon as plainly needed-and at times, indeed, summarily crushing to atoms the mightiest parties, even in the hour of their pride.
2) I suspect, Mrs. Walker, that you and I have lived too long at Geneva.
3) Well, what did it matter? A few years at best, and as many an empty belly as a full one. And in the end, Death waited, ever-hungry and hungriest of them all.
4) The Introduction of a female nurse in the camp also met with objection. It was argued that no decent woman could be prevailed to accept Roaring Camp as her home, and the speaker urged that 'they didn't want any more of the other kind'. This unkind allusion to the defunct mother, harsh as it may seem, was the first spasm of propriety, - the first symptom of the camp's regeneration.
5) Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself,/(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
6) I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.
7) The great poems. Shakspere included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common people, the life blood of democracy.
8) This is my letter to the World/That never wrote to Me -/The simple News that Nature told -/With tender Majesty
9) Men are welcome to the privilege.
10) The men had suddenly awakened to the fact that there were beauty and significance in these trifles, which they had so long trodden carelessly beneath their feet.
11) I have intimated that, as a paramount scheme, it has yet few or no full realizes and believers. I do not see, either, that it owes any serious thanks to noted propagandists or champions, or has been essentially help'd, though often harm'd, by them...Doubtless, also, it resides, crude and latent, well down in the hearts of the fair average of the American-born people, mainly is the agricultural regions. But it is not yet, there or anywhere, the fully-receiv'd. the fervid, the absolute faith.
12) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,/You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,/You shall listen to all sides and filter them for your self.
13) Nature was not kindly to the flesh. She had no concern for that concrete thing called the individual. Her interest lay in the species, the race.
14) I'm ceded - I've stopped being Their's -