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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.
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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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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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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Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
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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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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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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.
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The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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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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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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Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?
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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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I wonder why we hate the past so.
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Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?
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Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
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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.
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Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.
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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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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
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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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