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William Dean Howells Quotes

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The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.  (William Dean Howells Quotes) You’ll find as you grow older that you weren’t born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.  (William Dean Howells Quotes) I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler’s truest and best reward.  (William Dean Howells Quotes) Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart  (William Dean Howells Quotes) The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment  (William Dean Howells Quotes) The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested  (William Dean Howells Quotes) I wonder why we hate the past so  (William Dean Howells Quotes) Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week  (William Dean Howells Quotes) The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested  (William Dean Howells Quotes) Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week  (William Dean Howells Quotes) The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number  (William Dean Howells Quotes) Primitive societies without religion have never been found  (William Dean Howells Quotes) He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence  (William Dean Howells Quotes) How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?  (William Dean Howells Quotes) Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered  (William Dean Howells Quotes) The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection  (William Dean Howells Quotes) A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it’s too late to let her know that he sees it  (William Dean Howells Quotes) I don’t see why, when it comes to falling in love, a man shouldn’t fall in love with a rich girl as easily as a poor one  (William Dean Howells Quotes) See how today’s achievement is only tomorrow’s confusion; See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious  (William Dean Howells Quotes) I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler’s truest and best reward  (William Dean Howells Quotes) The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all  (William Dean Howells Quotes) If we like a man’s dream, we call him a reformer; if we don’t like his dream, we call him a crank  (William Dean Howells Quotes) It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom  (William Dean Howells Quotes) Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world  (William Dean Howells Quotes) It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit  (William Dean Howells Quotes) The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you  (William Dean Howells Quotes) You’ll find as you grow older that you weren’t born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up  (William Dean Howells Quotes) We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these  (William Dean Howells Quotes) There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things  (William Dean Howells Quotes)