"How is it the great pieces of good…" — William Dean Howells
"How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?"
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32 Quotes by William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells has 32 quotes on this site.
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know…
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It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and…
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Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
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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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Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no…
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I wonder why we hate the past so.
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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly…
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really…
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In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is…
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
— Francis Bacon
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