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Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
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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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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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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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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The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
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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?
William Dean Howells
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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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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See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusionSee how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
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If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.
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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 mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
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How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
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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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Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
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The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
William Dean Howells
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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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
