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Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?
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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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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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
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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 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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Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
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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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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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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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The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
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People naturally despise a dependant.
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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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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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If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.
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I wonder why we hate the past so.
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