Lew Wallace Quotes

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• When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
• A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that…
• It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.
• To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the…
• There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it.…
• Pride is never so loud as when in chains.
• A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
• All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.
• This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.
• The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
• Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.
• As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
• The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.
• Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?
• I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury…
• The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he…
• Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.
• Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised,…
• What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.
• Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier…

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