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The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
William Dean Howells
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William Dean Howells
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: March 1
Died: 1920
Died: May 11
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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.
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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
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By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.
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Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?
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The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.
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The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.
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A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.
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If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
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Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
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It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
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The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
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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.
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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
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Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
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I wonder why we hate the past so.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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