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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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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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People naturally despise a dependant.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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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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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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I wonder why we hate the past so.
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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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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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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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How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
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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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Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
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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 difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.
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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 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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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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Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
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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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