Although certainly not superstitious, often, amidst the most arduous scenes of my tumultuous life, when I have passed unharmed through the breakers of the ocean, or the hail-storms of battle, she has seemed present with me.
Garibaldi describes a profound spiritual connection to his mother, feeling her presence during moments of extreme danger in his life.
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They sang of love, until I was transported; and they endeavored to excite themselves to patriotism by singing of Italy!
But who, in those days, had ever taught them how to be patriots and Italians?
How everything is embellished by the feelings of youth, and how beautiful appeared, to my ardent eyes, the bark in which I was to navigate the Mediterranean, when I stepped on board as a sailor for the first time!
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