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Lew Wallace

(1827–1905) Military Officer United States

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Lew Wallace was a military officer from the United States, best known for Ben Hur.

Quick Facts About Lew Wallace

Born: April 10, 1827
Died: February 15, 1905
Nationality: United States
Profession: Military Officer
Notable works: Ben Hur
Known for: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Spouse: Susan Wallace

About Lew Wallace

Lewis Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, artist, inventor, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Lew Wallace · Page 2

“I see, I see! From association Messala, in boyhood, was almost a Jew; had he remained here, he might have become a…

Boyhood

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This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

Civil war

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“They took him last night, and tried him," the man continued. "At dawn they led him before Pilate. Twice the Roman denied…

Last night

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“Such were the shepherds of Judea! In appearance, rough and savage as the gaunt dogs with them around the blaze; in fact,…

Life

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“Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love; would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.”

Love

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“For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than…

Charisma

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As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Behave

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To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness…

Cups

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The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought…

Architect

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Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the…

Absolutes

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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Companionship

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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Excessive

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“Believing in God, invisible yet supreme, I also believed it possible so to yearn for him with all my soul that he…

Compassion

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“For to-day I take or give; For to-day I drink and live; For to-day I beg or borrow; Who knows about the…

Today

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“the impression made upon them by the first view of a camel equipped and loaded for the desert. Custom, so fatal to…

Long Journeys

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“There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of…

Nationalism

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The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

Bird

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“CHAPTER II The”

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It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of…

After death

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“the wife of Ben-Hur, sat in her room in the beautiful villa by Misenum. It was noon, with a warm Italian sun…

Marriage

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Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

Affection

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Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by…

Awake

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Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

Funny

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“If thou dost think of me again, O tribune, let it not be lost in thy mind that I prayed thee only…

Family

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A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done;…

30th birthday

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