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I wonder why we hate the past so.
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 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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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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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
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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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See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusionSee how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
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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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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.
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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 ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.
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In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
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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.
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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
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We are creatures of the moment we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.
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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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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 secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
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