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If any number of Americans were asked off-hand to name the woman who stands highest in the esteem of the American people, the reply would be unanimously, “Clara Barton.”
Republic Magazine.
The patience, the nobility of soul, the resignation and bravery of our gallant troops! Clara Barton.
Love chivalry. Armand.
Chivalry is the essence of virtue. Lord John Russell.
Chivalry was the parent of honor. A. Delevan.
The true spirit of chivalry is a generous impatience of wrong.
Chatfield.
Chivalry has not entirely died out in this prosaic age.
Cecilia Findlay.
“People say that I must have been born brave,” said Clara Barton. “Why, I seem to remember nothing but terrors in my early days, I was a shrinking little bundle of fears, fears of thunder, fears of strange faces, fears of my strange self.”
Mary R. Parkman—In Heroines of Service.
Fear loves the idea of danger. S. Croxall.
The moment my fear begins, I cease to fear. Schiller.
The weak most fear, the timid tremble, but the brave and stout of heart will work and hope and trust. Clara Barton.