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Dec 5, 2014 · And from Benjamin Webster, The Golden Farmer; or, The Last Crime (by 1832), in which the "better angels" are the farmer's wife and daughter: Farmer. Bless ye——bless ye both. (Kissing them.) You've proved my better angels. Ere I knew yon, ay, and since, for a time, the vice of gain, either by honest or dishonest means, had taken possession ...
- There was a huge political crisis in the works, and portions of the country were preparing for war with each other - one that would take 600,000 li...
- Both “better angel” and “better angels” have long pedigrees in English literature, though there is some disagreement as to whether an individual pe...
- The comparative better implies there must also be worse angels, and these would be those that (per Christian mythology ) fell with Satan or Lu...
- He said that in a time before the American Civil War. He was attempting to keep the Union a Union. The South was threatening to secede. As a ver...
- SONNET 144 by William Shakespeare Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still; The better angel is...
- Lincoln, I think, is saying the Nation is conflicted, impassioned and, perhaps mislead by strong emotional tides. He is hoping that the American P...
“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” by Abraham Lincoln. March 4, 1861 [Excerpts]
Mar 4, 2011 · But Lincoln invoked "the better angels of our nature" — deeply personal. In challenging times, there will always be politicians who invoke images of fear and distrust. We need to hear today...
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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Jan 21, 2021 · In one line on the nation’s current challenges, he declared, “Our better angels have always prevailed.”. This is a borrowed phrase from Lincoln’s first inaugural address, when the ...
Jul 26, 2023 · “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” – Abraham Lincoln
